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  • The logo for the first Global Handwashing Day on 15 October 2008. Countless deaths from diarrhoea, respiratory infections and other ailments could be prevented by regular handwashing at home, at achool and in the community.
  • On 15 October 2008, the first Global Handwashing Day will occur. Organised by UNICEF, the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several other agencies, the event will raise awareness about
  • The road to Datu Piang, home to the largest number of displaced persons on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
  • A displaced man at the Sambulawan evacuation centre in conflict-affected Mindanao.
  • Norodin Benito and his family fled to the Sambulawan evacuation centre in Mindanao following a resumption of hostilities between government forces and the MILF
  • 70-year old Tabayag Eman, a resident of the Sambulawan evacuation centre in North Cotabato Province, Mindanao, would like to return to her home but can't due to the conflict. Thousands have been displaced.
  • Cocaine haul
  • A classic image of hyperinflation. A woman burns money instead of fuel during the hyperinflation crisis in Weimar Germany in the 1920s.
    Money to burn during the 1920s hyperinflation in Germany's Weimar Republic
  • Official inflation rate.
  • Taken at Songolo a locality 40 km south of Bunia, in the fighting zone, 30 September 2008. A group of displaced people who marched for several kilometers towards Songolo during nightfall. They have nowhere to go and are resting under a tree.
    Internally displaced people flee Songolo, 40 km south of Bunia, following fighting between the Congolese army and militiamen
  • Rice paddy cultivators in Nelumwewa in northwestern Sri Lanka experiment with new varieties of vegetables in the inhospitable saline soil. UNDP plans to help them cultivate vegetables on a larger scale, after efforts to grow rice were unsuccessful.
  • R. M. Vimalawathi, a farmer in northwestern Sri Lanka, managed to salvage just enough rice to feed her family after a succession of failed harvests. UNDP is assisting her and other farmers in the area experiment with hardy rice varieties that will withsta
  • During the wet season water-borne diseases flourish in puddles like this one at Metinaro IDP camp, 25km east of Dili, which has a population of some 10,000.
    During the wet season water-borne diseases flourish in puddles like this one at Metinaro IDP camp, 25km east of Dili, which has a population of some 10,000
  • During the wet season water-borne diseases flourish in puddles like this one at Metinaro IDP camp, 25km east of Dili, which has a population of some 10,000.
  • Timor-Leste entertainer Bu Le Le sings about water and sanitation to children at Metinaro IDP camp as part of an awareness-raising campaign. The IDPs have been living in the camp since 2006 and are facing their third rainy season, with floods and landslid
  • A school boy, who identifies himself only as Okeny, hawks plastic bottles in the streets of Gulu in northern Uganda.
    Street boy Okeny hawks plastic bottles in the streets of Gulu
  • Migrants buy empty water bottles that cost about US$6 to prepare for their thousand kilometre trip through the desert into Libya and Algeria.
  • Would-be migrants wait outside their lodging as smugglers help organize their illegal desert crossing into Libya and Algeria.
  • With papers in hand, 23-year-old Ghanaian Freddy Kasseri waits for a second chance to make it to Libya.
  • Sri Lanka is a tourist paradise, but with large numbers of tourists avoiding the island because of security concerns, many hotels are in dire economic straits and it is having a ripple effect on their work forces and the suppliers of food and other goods
  • With alarming declines in the number of tourists visiting Sri Lanka because of the ongoing conflict and security fears, the Tourist Board is launching special promotions to induce tourists to visit, including tour packages that include getting up close an
  • Vehicle emissions are responsible for 23 percent of Cairo's pollutants.
  • Human activity has saturated the air with pollutants over Cairo.
  • Lara Aisi, a staff member at the Center for Disaster Reduction, shows a disaster awareness booklet prepared for use by children. Since 2002 more than 100 representatives from national and provincial disaster agencies and from the humanitarian community ha
  • High food prices and drought have pushed over five million Afghans into high risk food insecurity.
  • A truck of smuggled migrants leaving Agadez to cross the Sahara desert into Libya and Algeria.
  • Calls for a new law to tackle child sexual abuse.
  • Bafata street. Many roads across the country are in a state of disrepair.
  • The Center for Disaster Reduction at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby teaches the mechanics of volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters and how to prepare, mitigate and respond to them. With the support of UNICEF it has designe
  • Cannabis production, addiction grows in Afghanistan.
  • Lema Harriso, director of Shemna Hurufa primary school, worried about the low student turnout.
  • Lema Harriso, director of Shemna Hurufa primary school, worried about the low student turnout.

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