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  • Sri Lanka policemen who participated in a UNDP-sponsored first aid training programme practise pre-hospital care techniques that they were taught as part of the disaster preparedness project
    Sri Lanka policemen practise pre-hospital care techniques that they were taught as part of the disaster preparedness project
  • The National Disaster Management Centre (DMC) that the floods killed at least eleven people and affected over 360,000 persons between 22 and 30 November
  • Heavy flooding in Jaffna District and in eight other norther districts in Sri Lanka blocked roads, caused extensive damage and left hundreds of thousands homeless
  • Many disabled people are forced by poverty and lack of opportunity to beg on the streets of Afghanistan’s major towns and cities
  • Many disabled people are forced by poverty and lack of opportunity to beg on the streets of Afghanistan’s major towns and cities
  • School children in Cambodia. Corruption within the country's education system is reportedly rampant
  • Dar Naim prison in Nouakchott, site of alleged torture
  • A woman joins a World AIDS Day rally in Olongapo city, Phillipines
  • Teenage girls join a World Aids Day commemoration ceremony in Olongapo City, Phiilppines
  • Coal briquettes still to catch on
  • Sri Lanka policemen who participated in a UNDP-sponsored first aid training programme practise pre-hospital care techniques that they were taught as part of the disaster preparedness project
  • Children are among the most vulnerable to earthquakes in Kathmandu. Nearly 60 percent of the city's 2,000 schools are not quake resistant
  • Illegal migrants crossing the Moie River illegally into Thailand
  • Cyclone survivors who migrated to Mae Sot in Thailand in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. Seven months on, no dramatic upsurge has been reported
  • Migrants cross into Thailand from Myanmar illegally every day
  • Mar Mar Aye, coordinator, Burma Woman's Union Emergency Assistance Team, one of a number of people working with cyclone migrants in Mae Sot, Thailand
  • Professor and botanist Abdellahi Ould Mohamed Vall
  • Efforts to stabilise a sand dune with branches and tree limbs along  Nouakchott's main roasd
  • Abandoned home at foot of sand dune on outskirts of Nouakchott
    Desertification and crumbling home on outskirts of capital Nouakchott (file photo)
  • Zahara Abdu, 29, mother of six. Displaced by drought from the village of Haitan to Erebti town in  Zone 2 of Afar region, northeastern Ethiopia
  • Prosopis plant species in Mauritania
  • AIDS Outlook is a new report from UNAIDS
  • The Taliban have widely used children for pure military purpose, and some children have also been recruited in the ranks of Afghan government forces
  • Children have been killed, maimed and sexually abused in the conflict
  • Children have shared the brunt of conflict casualties in the war in Afghanistan
  • A truck stop in the town of Ilula, on the outskirts of Iringa, southern Tanzania
  • Despite awareness campaigns, the issue of trafficking won't go away.
  • Trafficking of women remains a source of concern for activists. Thousands fall victim each year.
  • Armed attacks on schools, teachers and students in troubled Helmand province have forced large numbers of children to flee to neighbouring Lashkargah, hoping to be able to continue their schooling there
  • Gavel
  • Judge's gavel
  • Vincent Mdluli

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