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  • Antonia da Costa Freitas, 48, has lived at the Metinaro displaced persons camp outside Dili since 2006. The camp is the last of some 50 IDP camps in the area to remain open
  • An Afghan boy deported from Iran shows his refugee identity card
  • UNESCO estimates that there may be as few as 20,000 of the original marshlands inhabitants remaining
    UNESCO estimates that there may be as few as 20,000 of the original marshlands inhabitants remaining
  • Since 2003, efforts to restore the marshes have gradually revived the area
    Since 2003, efforts to restore the marshes have gradually revived the area
  • Coverage area for the 2009 short rains food security assessment
  • Members of the Tharu community in Nepal seek greater rights
    Members of the Tharu community in Nepal seek greater rights
  • Consumer authenticates their medication with mPedigree technology
    Consumer authenticates medication with mPedigree technology during a pilot phase in 2008
  • Malnourished child in Monrovia, March 2009
  • Mohamed Ahmed, 29, is manager of “PC World” computer shop in Rimal, Gaza City. The shop supplies Gaza residents with computers and IT equipment that enters Gaza via tunnels from Egypt. Equipment is often damaged by the trip through the tunnels
    Mohamed Ahmed, 29, is manager of “PC World” computer shop in Rimal, Gaza City. The shop supplies Gaza residents with computers and IT equipment that enter Gaza via tunnels from Egypt, often getting damaged along the way
  • Boat on Mekong River alongside Këoh Rögniev island
  • Mekong river in Nakhon Phanom
  • Gabions
  • Metal groins
  • Wooden groins
  • The soda-mattress system was introduced and developed in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century to protect riverbanks from erosion
    The soda-mattress system was introduced and developed in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century to protect riverbanks from erosion
  • Daily chart of admission at the ICDDR,B hospital in Dhaka - March 2009
  • Children sit together on the small wooden jetty perched over the water to greet visitors and bask in the sunshine. A simple, yet strong way of life that is practiced by communities along the waterways of the Delta, with such community resilience that even
  • In Myanmar, the dry season comes in March and April rendering some people uneasy about what they will do to have enough good clean water. The clean water pond in the photo is shared by the cyclone affected communities – originally it was for one, but th
  • An elder of the minority group Gabooyo
    Jama Dhoodi Shirar, an elder of the minority group Gabooyo
  • Following a food aid distribution, a young boy happily carries a bag of rice home. With emergency funding from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), the UN World Food Programme reports it has reached nearly one million people in the
  • A beautiful young girl with traditional teneka running to play with friends and family near the village where 94 of 97 houses were destroyed by Nargis and despite such great loss the communities pooled what little resources they had to survive - food, wat
  • A young monk in Bogale looks back as he collects drinking water with fellow monks at a monastery close to one of the warehouses used by humanitarian aid agencies delivering food aid to Cyclone Nargis survivors
  • A small community in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta where more than half to the population were killed in Cyclone Nargis. As a result of devastation of crops and livestock, please rely on food distribution given by the UN Word Food Programme (WFP), Action Co
  • In even the harshest of conditions, the resilience of children is extraordinary - laughing and playing under tarpauline canopied houses. Their family needs were largely desroyed by the cyclone
  • Eight year old Sanhla lost her mother when Cyclone Nargis struck nearly one year ago. She shields herself from the sun using a rice bag while patiently waiting with her grandmother to collect various food items being distributed. The communities hit by Na
  • Two cost-effective technologies using locally available materials and manpower provide a sustainable way of stemming riverbank erosion on the Mekong river in Laos
  • Classic riverbank erosion pattern. The riverbank erosion on the Mekong river in Lao is now threatening thousands of lives and livelihoods, especially in the dense urban areas in and around Vientaiane
  • Eight year old Sanhla lost her mother when Cyclone Nargis struck nearly one year ago. She shields herself from the sun using a rice bag while patiently waiting with her grandmother to collect various food items being distributed. The communities hit by Na
  • Map of Lao PDR showing the Mekong river
  • Acacia tree
  • Farmers gather for a workshop on growing acacia trees (file photo)
    Farmers gather for a workshop on growing acacia trees in the Sahel (file photo)
  • Flooded street outside a school in downtown Banjul

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