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  • Victims of Pakistan's 2010 floods
  • Benazir wants a sewing machine -Benazir Khatoon, one of several thousands in camps outside Karachi
  • Flood victims in Rahim Yar Khan, a city in the south of Punjab Province, Pakistan, receive rations from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), including wheat flour. It is estimated 17 million people in Pakistan have been affected by monsoon floods, the worst
  • A mother gives her child a bowl of clean water in Charsarda District, in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, an area severely affected by monsoon floods. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is providing safe drinking water to floo
    Providing safe drinking water in KP province
  • Victims of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in several years walk through water-filled streets in the northwestern city of Nowshera. The flooding caused by monsoon rains has claimed up to 1,400 lives and affected 2.5 million people, including Pakistan's l
    A new satellite link helps provide faster updates on the floods
  • Carlos Matos, 40, works as a police officer in Maputo, Mozambique
  • A bowl of locally-grown maize at an IDP settlement in Ethiopia's western Gambella region, September 2010
    A bowl of locally-grown maize at an IDP settlement in Ethiopia's western Gambella region, September 2010
  • Samburu women, northern Kenya
    Most Samburu women deliver their babies at home
  • The swollen Baro river near the western Ethiopia city of Gambella, September 2010. Flooding often occurs in the region in September or October
    The swollen Baro river near the western Ethiopia city of Gambella, September 2010. Flooding often occurs in the region in September or October
  • Access to clean water remains a challenge in Nepal's Terai region along the border with India. More than 30,000 people are exposed to arsenic
  • A rice field in southern Bangladesh. Rice is a staple part of the Bangladeshi diet
  • A rice farmer in Bangladesh. Rice is a staple part of the Bangladeshi diet
    A rice farmer in Bangladesh
  • The Global Call to Action against Poverty wrote a 1.8m high open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, recommending a stronger human rights focus within the MDGs in June 2010
  • Residents use a makeshift boat to cross a flooded field in Punjab, Pakistan
    Residents use a makeshift boat to cross a flooded field in Punjab, Pakistan
  • Shattered and broken: The elderly are most at risk with their inability to access aid. One of the thousands displaced in Rajanpur, Punjab
    Elderly IDP in Rajanpur. Rajanpur is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan
  • A man uses a large cooking pan as a boat near Reikhbaghwala village, Rajanpur district in Punjab, Pakistan
    A man uses a large cooking pan as a boat near Reikhbaghwala village, Rajanpur district in Punjab, Pakistan
  • Muslim charities poster UK
  • Design for "green dock wharf' to detox shipbreaking
  • Photo on the cover of a MSF report on sexual violence (survivor of sexual violence in the DRC)
    Photo on the cover of a MSF report on sexual violence (survivor of sexual violence in the DRC)
  • Egypt pays about US$1 billion a year to subsidize bread to feed its poorest people
  • Pastoralist in Jijiga, Ethiopia
  • A donkey laden with jerricans, Jijiga, Ethiopia
  • Pastoral women tie their milk jerricans to a waiting truck. Jijiga, Ethiopia
  • Man enjoying his qat in Sana'a, Yemen
    Millions chew qat in Yemen, mostly men (file photo)
  • A scene inside the vault of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre in Mexico. Safeguarding the seeds is seen as key in protecting agricultural biodiversity for future generations 

Mike Listman/International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cen
  • An artist's depiction of the Svalbard Seed Vault in Norway. The vault currently holds 526,000 seed samples (500 seeds per sample), making it the largest Seed Vault in the world
  • Despite a 2006 government ban, female circumcision - even amongst babies - continues
  • Dede Jafar playing with her ten month old granddaughter. Dede did not hesitate for a moment to have her only granddaughter circumcised. Female circumcision is still widely practised in Indonesia, after the government ban in 2006
  • Manila - Residents walk past a pile of upturned cars left behind by receding flood waters after tropical storm Ketsana ravaged the Philippines last year. Philippine officials say government is bracing for more brutal storms this year carrying heavy rains
  • Umar Idriss, from a nomadic family, is one of the few nomadic children to attend primary and secondary school. He must now decide whether to return to his family or settle in Kaduna to attend university
  • Around 1,000 Pygmy families from the indigenous Bambuti community eke out a living on the edge of a camp for displaced people near the city of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Nomadic boys in northern Nigeria
    Nomadic boys in northern Nigeria

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