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  • Active Engineering's JakPak, an all-in-one waterproof jacket with “the built in versatility of a personal sleeping environment,” billed as “a critical new resource for first responders and disaster victims.”
  • Children at Akobo Primary School studying under a tree on 6 July, because the school lacks enough classrooms
    Children at Akobo Primary School studying under a tree on 6 July, because the school lacks enough classrooms
  • School children celebrating the Girls Education Day in Southern Sudan, in Malakal, Upper Nile State, on 7 July
    School children celebrating the Girls Education Day in Southern Sudan, in Malakal, Upper Nile State, on 7 July
  • School children celebrating the Girls Education Day in Southern Sudan, in Malakal, Upper Nile State, on 7 July
  • The Sentry 5000 Mobile Utility System, a multifunctional enclosed trailer unit capable of providing quickly deployable electrical power, heating and cooling, purified water, communication and lighting as a single, self-contained towable unit
  • The Sentry 5000 Mobile Utility System, a multifunctional enclosed trailer unit capable of providing quickly deployable electrical power, heating and cooling, purified water, communication and lighting as a single, self-contained towable unit
    The Sentry 5000 Mobile Utility System, a multifunctional enclosed trailer unit capable of providing quickly deployable electrical power, heating and cooling, purified water, communication and lighting as a single, self-contained towable unit
  • Active Engineering's JakPak, an all-in-one waterproof jacket with “the built in versatility of a personal sleeping environment,” billed as “a critical new resource for first responders and disaster victims.”
  • A Turkana elder gesticulates during a meeting with officials from neighbouring Uganda. In large part because of drought, Kenyan pastoralists are having to travel further to find pasture, often into Uganda, where security forces will only grant admission i
  • Cambodian Children on the shore of the Tonle Sap lake
    Cambodian Children on the shore of the Tonle Sap lake
  • Buddhist monks of the Santi Sena (or Peace Army), meeting in the Prey Koki forest in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province.
Monks from Santi Sena have replanted tens of thousands of trees here after it was destroyed by bombing during the Vietnam war, and latt
    Buddhist monks in the Prey Koki forest in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province
  • A Turkana girl waters camels from a hole dug in a dry river bed near Kenya’s border with Uganda. Increasing drought has obliged pastoralists to travel further in their search for pasture and water. This often brings them into conflict with rival pastora
    A Turkana girl waters camels from a hole dug in a dry river bed near Kenya’s border with Uganda
  • A Turkana elder gesticulates during a meeting with officials from neighbouring Uganda. In large part because of drought, Kenyan pastoralists are having to travel further to find pasture, often into Uganda, where security forces will only grant admission i
    A Turkana elder gesticulates during a meeting with officials from neighbouring Uganda
  • Turkana youths in northern Kenya, near the Sudanese border. Small arms such as the AK-47 are widespread among pastoralist communities in east Africa, where increasingly severe and unpredictable drought has contributed to an increase in conflict between di
    Turkana youths in northern Kenya, near the Sudanese border
  • Wheat aid sacks
  • A UN Truck
  • Map showing the flow of the Mekong river
    Trying to turn these 5000km into less vulnerable territory
  • Pollution has turned the water of the River Balu into a thick black sludge
  • An armed Afghan police
  • A Turkana girl waters camels from a hole dug in a dry river bed near Kenya’s border with Uganda. Increasing drought has obliged pastoralists to travel further in their search for pasture and water. This often brings them into conflict with rival pastora
    A Turkana girl waters camels from a hole dug in a dry river bed near Kenya’s border with Uganda
  • Chilled sherbets and punches sold by street vendors are a leading cause of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis, doctors say
  • Some 3 million pilgrims went to Mecca in 2008 for Hajj. Health authorities are introducing measures to reduce the spread of swine flu in the 2009 Hajj
  • From data compiled in WHO's World Health Statistics 2009
  • From data compiled in WHO's World Health Statistics 2009
  • A child with hydrocephalus
  • Frank Biermann is professor at the VU University Amsterdam and director of the international research programme "Earth System Governance Project."
  • Ingrid Boas, researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Thousands make a living by rice cultivation, and many more live in floating villages on the Mekong River and Tonle Sap
  • A side of the urine diversion pan. The hole on the far right is for urine, the middle for feces and the third for anal washing
  • The much needed land law is seen vital for the country's development and its 1.1 million inhabitants
  • Tens of thousands of people have been displaced sa a result of insecurity in Afghanistan, aid agencies say
  • Datu Odin Sinsuat - Children sit on the floor during a food distribution mission by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in the southern Philippines. UN agencies have temporarily suspended relief missions to the southern Philippines on security concerns, a
  • Iligan City, Philippines - A member of the police bomb squad checks what remains of a car bomb that exploded in the southern Philippine city of Iligan July 7, 2009, wounding 18 people, including three soldiers. The bombing has been blamed on Muslim milita

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