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  • Kutubdia Island in Bangladesh
  • Up to 40,000 women and children are obliged to walk - or rather clamber - 10-15km to reach the nearest water sources
  • Kutubdia Island in Bangladesh
  • A Timorese man learns the art of briquette production in Dili. Bio-briquettes could lessen the blow of both unemployment and deforestation
  • Bio-briquettes like these are not only cheaper than wood fuels, but also better for the environment. Timor-Leste is grappling with both unemployment and deforestation
  • Milhan locals must climb 1,500-1,800m-high mountains to reach springs to get water, Yemen
    Milhan locals must climb 1,500-1,800m-high mountains to reach springs to get water, Yemen
  • Women sit together outside their dormitory at the Heal Africa Transit Center for women victims of sexual violence. While these women have received humanitarian and medical assistance for their immediate needs after sexual violence, due to funding gaps the
    Women sit together outside their dormitory at the Heal Africa Transit Center for women victims of sexual violence
  • Improper dumping of refuse has heightened the impact of erosion say officials
  • HALO Trust deminers briefed before starting work on minefields close to Mozambique's Cahora Bassa dam
  • Khadijah Ibrahim with some of her children. Children are particularly at risk of catching malaria and diarrhoeal diseases
    Khadijah Ibrahim with some of her children. Children are particularly at risk of catching malaria and diarrhoeal diseases
  • Children play at a shallow well: Most of the wells are uncovered exposing residents to the risk of using contaminated water
  • A bucket toilet in a home in Wajir town. Wajir residents have to grapple with inadequate sanitation and poor latrine coverage
    The few private and public facilities in Kampala’s slums charge a fee for use of a toilet
  • An area known as the 'kissing pool' at Addis Ababa's Siddist Kilo Campus
  • There is only one laboratory in Afghanistan capable of H1N1 diagnosis
  • ‘Rima’, a young Tunisian girl working in a Super Nightclub, said her official monthly salary was inadequate to cover expenses, such as obligatory HIV tests, rent and new clothes, meaning sex with clients was the only way to make money
  • An estimated 6,000 foreign girls work in Lebanon’s 130 licensed Super Nightclubs annually, dancing and meeting clients there to arrange sex the next day
  • An area known as the 'kissing pool' at Addis Ababa's Siddist Kilo Campus
  • Patients wait to get their eyes tested
  • Kaneez Fatima's parents did not know why she was having difficulty seeing the blackboard in school
  • People sometimes resort to buying glasses from roadside sellers
  • Some 30,000 migrant workers are employed in Israel's agricultural sector, mostly from Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka
  • Women trawling for small fish and krill in the sea off Beira
  • Map of Israel
  • One of the child headed household member seated in their hut in Patiko village
    One of the child headed household member seated in their hut in Patiko village
  • Nené Koné has been working since 1991 at the Dar Naim health centre, in a suburb of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, taking care of malnourished children
  • Tahya Sidiekhreye, in her 50s, with her grand-son who suffers from severe malnutrition and is taken care of at the Dar Naim health centre, a suburb of the Mauritania capital, Nouakchott
  • Road to the airport in N’zérékoré, southeastern Guinea. August 2009
  • A HALO Trust instructor teaches new recruits about landmines
    A HALO Trust instructor teaches new recruits about landmines
  • A demining recruit listens intently to a lecture. In the background a new recruit wears mine protection equipment
  • Women fishing with nets on the beach in Beira
  • Posters of the ruling Frelimo party ahaeda of the 2009 general elections in the capital Maputo
  • Illegal logging in the Cardamom Mountain, Koh Kong Province, Cambodia
    Twenty-two provinces are on high alert for forest fires (file photo)

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