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  • One of the characters from Soul City performs the OneLove theme tune at the launch of the campaign in January
  • Gay pride
  • Gay pride in Cape Town
  • Gay Pride in Cape Town
  • Gay pride
  • Thokozani Khupe, Deputy prime minister
  • About eight million people out of Afghanistan’s estimated 27 million population have been pushed into high risk food insecurity because of drought, high food prices and conflict
    Millions of Afghans have been pushed into high-risk food insecurity because of drought, high food prices and conflict, according to aid agencies
  • Gay Pride in Cape Town
  • map - Senegal (Casamance) and Guinea-Bissau
  • Situation in Sudan - Map
  • Fourteen-year old Salman Salama is partially paralyzed on his right side from an Israeli missile attack during the conflict that ended on 18 January 2009. He lies in El-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in north Gaza
    Fourteen-year old Salman Salama is partially paralyzed on his right side from an Israeli missile attack during the conflict that ended on 18 January 2009. He lies in El-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in north Gaza
  • The government’s plan to distribute 166,000 tones of wheat during winter is in addition to aid provisions by other aid agencies
    The government is yet to deliver over 115,000 tonnes of wheat to vulnerable people
  • Over 30,000 civilians have fled the combat zone, many of them killed and injured in the process. ICRC with the assistance of the Sri Lankan Navy has been ferrying them and their dependants to safety
  • An injured civilian who had fled the combat zone in the Vanni pocket is carried ashore after a ferry trip organized by ICRC with the Sri Lankan Navy to Trincomalee District
  • ICRC with the Sri Lanka Navy has been transporting injured civilians and their dependants from the combat zone by ferry to government controlled areas in Trincomalee District
  • Women wait their turn to fetch water in the commune of Bagira, on the outskirts of the main South Kivu town of Bukavu. The communes are overcrowded with residents often lacking access to safe drinking water.
    Women wait their turn to fetch water in the commune of Bagira, on the outskirts of the main South Kivu town of Bukavu.
  • A view of Lake Kivu. The lake supports about two million livelihoods in the DRC provinces of North and South Kivu as well as neighbouring Rwanda
    A view of Lake Kivu
  • Wineza Esperance, 17, a mother of two outside her tent at a UNHCR transit site in Goma, DRC. She left the Masisi territory, also in South Kivu for repatriation to Rwanda. Esperance is married to an FDLR (Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwand
  • A group of Rwandan children inside a tent at a UNHCR transit site in Goma, capital of South Kivu Province. The anxious children are packed and ready to return to Rwanda, a home they have never known as they were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo af
    A group of Rwandan children inside a tent at a UNHCR transit site in Goma, capital of South Kivu Province
  • Women sell their wares by the roadside in one of the many crowded communes close to Bukavu, the main South Kivu town. Lack of employment opportunities as well as poor and unreliable pay in government jobs for the men has forced most women to take up the r
  • Rwandan refugees at a UN Refugee agency transit site in Goma, the main town in the province of North Kivu. The refugees are waiting to return home to Rwanda after spending years in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had settled after fleeing
    Rwandan refugees at a UN Refugee agency transit site in Goma, the main town in the province of North Kivu
  • A lorry transporting water jerricans and other commodities from the area of Kavumu, to the main South Kivu town of Bukavu, has its journey cut short due to the poor state of the road. Most of the province is characterised by dilapidated infrastructure wit
    A lorry in the DRC taking goods from the Kavumu area to the main South Kivu town of Bukavu gets bogged down on a muddy road
  • The 'Scutinize' HIV awareness campaign urges young people to scrutinize their risk behaviours
  • Syria's textiles industry, one of the country’s leading export industries, has been hard hit by the global economic crisis, with reports of dozens of factory closures
  • Many workers in the textile industry do not have employment, meaning they can be laid-off easily, and sometimes without receiving due payment
  • Tensions are high - mostly over land ownership and political differences - in some Timorese communities where hundreds of people who were displaced since 2006 are reintegrating. A programme of the government and UNDP is using traditional mediation measure
  • Prevalent unemployment, poverty and illiteracy force some Afghan youths to drug addiction, illegal migration or to the arms of the insurgents, experts say
    Unemployment, poverty and illiteracy force some young Afghans to join the ranks of insurgents, experts say
  • There are 70,000 registered drug users in Myanmar today, the government reports
  • The distribution of syringes and condoms play an important role in reducing the risk of HIV amongst intravenious drug users
  • A Bedouin settlement in Israel’s southern Negev area
    A Bedouin settlement in Israel’s southern Negev area. The Negev Bedouins are among the poorest people in the country
  • Mr. Achim Steiner, newly appointed Director General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON)
  • A mobile health clinic offering reproductive health care to thousands of displaced persons from northern Sri Lanka in Vavunya

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