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  • Luanshya Copper Mine. Closed by the sharp fall in copper prices
  • A recently retrenched Zambian miner, turns to informal trading to survive
  • Marta is an HIV activist with DREAM, an assistance program by Italian NGO Comunidade Santo Egídio
    Marta
  • A woman collects water from a temporary storage tank in Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar. January 2009
  • Access to potable water becomes a key challenge during the country's annual dry season
  • R. M. Vimalawathi, a farmer in the north-western Puttalam district in Sri Lanka, lost her entire crop of rice when wild elephants destroyed her fields.
  • A Tamil family in conflict-affected northern Sri Lanka
  • A WFP food convoy to conflict-affected northern Sri Lanka
  • A WFP food convoy in northern Sri Lanka
  • A WFP convoy bringing in much needed food assistance to the conflict-affected north
  • Food convoys to the Vanni were comprised of up to 60 trucks at a time
  • UN personnel escorting a WFP food convoy into the Vanni, northern Sri Lanka
  • A WFP food convoy in the Vanni, northern Sri Lanka. Food convoys were suspended on 16 January 2009 due to the conflict
  • A WFP food convoy in the Vanni, northern Sri Lanka
  • Rubble heaps after Kano government officials started tearing down businesses on Maiduguri Road in Kano city, northern Nigeria
    Rubble heap of a business that the Kano city government demolished
  • A mother and her HIV-infected baby are waiting for a medical consultation in the Bocaranga Hospital, Ouaham Pende Prefecture, northwest CAR, 30 June 2008
  • A child plays with a box of his mother's ARV drugs in Bangui
    Un enfant joue avec une boîte de médicaments ARV
  • A 12 year-old HIV-positive orphan with his grand-mother at the paediatric hospital in Bangui
    Malgré toute sa bonne volonté, la grand-mère de Daniel n'a pas les moyens de payer les médicaments qui permettrait à cet orphelin de 12 ans de retrouver des forces et ainsi pouvoir bénéficier du traitement ARV dont il a besoin
  • The ICRC and the Sri Lanka government have used ferries to transport injured civilians and their dependents out of the combat zones to Trincomalee port. They have also used the ferries to deliver food, medicine and other essentials to endangered civilians
    The ICRC and the Sri Lanka government have used ferries to transport injured civilians and their dependents out of the combat zones to Trincomalee port. They have also used the ferries to deliver essentials to endangered civilians
  • Decades of war and related suffering have left many Afghans struggling to cope with deep emotional and psychological wounds
  • Decades of war and related suffering have left many Afghans struggling to cope with deep emotional and psychological wounds
  • Child labourers are prone to physical, psychological and sexual violence, aid workers say
  • About 1600 children are involved in child labour in the Torkhan border town in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar
  • UNHCR says there are over 230,000 IDPs across Afghanistan
  • Brenda Achieng, 20, is living positively with HIV. Brenda lost her mother to HIV four years ago
  • The terrain in drought stricken Lodwar
  • Natercia Da Costa is one of many Timorese women who have now become small business entrepreneurs with the help of the ILO, UNDP and local Timor-Leste NGOs. The extra income she makes frying and selling vegetable and fruit chips helps her put her children
    Natercia Da Costa is one of many Timorese women who have now become small business entrepreneurs with the help of the ILO, UNDP and local Timor-Leste NGOs. The extra income she makes helps her put her children through school
  • A young Tamil girl at the Cheddikulum primary school, one of 16 transit points set up by the government to accomodate ethnic Tamils fleeing the conflict in the north. Injured by shrapnel, she spent 10 days in the 'no fire' zone set up near Mullaittivu
  • A view into the Nelukkum primary school in Vanuniya northern Sri Lanka, one of 16 transit camps set up by the government to accomodate fleeing ethnic Tamils from the north
  • Tamil citizens awaiting relocation from the Nelukkulam primary school, one of 16 transit sites in Vanuniya northern Sri Lanka, where thousands of Tamils have sought refuge from fighting to the north
  • Some 35,000 ethnic Tamils have fled to Vavuniya northern Sri Lanka, now a humanitarian hub for scores of international agencies
  • The Sri Lankan military have beefed up their efforts in the conflicted-north

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