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  • The PONJA report said the proportion of households practising unsanitary defecation almost doubled to 40 percent since Cyclone Nargis struck.
  • Hidden-away latrines are particularly popular.
  • This kind of hanging latrine on the edge of a stream can spread waterborne diseases
  • IDP camp in the Congo
  • Children in a house damaged by typhoon, Maypon village in the Philippines
  • [Bangladesh] 11 October 2008.
  • Sultan was so severely beaten in the face by the Myanmar military that he lost all his teeth
  • The medical centre at Leda, the site for undocumented Rohingyas near Teknaf
  • Severely malnourished children are repeatedly admitted for treatment at the
therapeutic nutrition centre in Leda, the site for undocumented Rohingyas
  • [Bangladesh] 11 October 2008.
  • Street children pose for a photographer in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland.
  • Street children in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland.
  • [Bangladesh] 11 October 2008.
    Female enrolment as a percentage of total enrolment increased from 33 percent in 1991 to 48 percent in 1997 and about 56 percent in 2005
  • Fishermen near Mopeia in Mozambique’s Zambezi river basin take a calculated risk by living next to the river. Flooding occurs almost annually now but fishing is their only way of making a living.
  • Children begging on the streets of Hargeisa, capital of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland.
  • At least 1,400 civilian people, mostly children and women, died in conflict from January to August 2008, according to the UN.
  • At least 1,400 civilian people, mostly children and women, died in conflict from January to August 2008, according to the UN.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
  • Over the past three months to the end of September, 13,000 Iraqi refugees registered with the UNHCR in Syria, allowing them to receive financial and material support.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
  • Thirty-year-old Yves Niyonkuru is gay and HIV-positive. He has been on ARVs for four years.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
    Bangladesh has halved its child mortality rate since 1990
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.
  • [Bangladesh] 8 October 2008.
    Think green
  • Georges Kanuma, chairman of Association pour le Respect et les Droits des Homosexuels (ARDHO), a gay rights organisation in Burundi.
  • MILF chief Murad Ibrahim pictured earlier this year in a rebel camp in the southern Philippines. Murad has denied that the MILF uses child soldiers in its rebellion, although evidence gathered by the army recently proves otherwise
    MILF chief Murad Ibrahim pictured earlier this year in a rebel camp in the southern Philippines. Murad has denied that the MILF uses child soldiers in its rebellion, although evidence gathered by the army recently proves otherwise
  • MILF rebels do military drills at a rebel camp in Mindanao. With fighting between the MILF and the government expected to escalate, rights monitors say the number of child soldiers among the rebels ranks could also increase.
  • MILF rebels do military drills at a rebel camp in Mindanao. With fighting between the MILF and the government expected to escalate, rights monitors say the number of child soldiers among the rebels ranks could also increase.
  • Children look out of a house in a sprawling MILF camp in the southern Philippines.
  • [Bangladesh] 10 October 2008.

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