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  • Migrants displaced by the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa were housed in temporary shelters which were expected to close by 15 August 2008.
  • Migrants displaced by the recent xenophobic violence in Gauteng were housed in six temporary shelters which were to have been closed by 15 August 2008.
  • Migrants displaced by the recent xenophobic violence in Gauteng were housed in six temporary shelters which were to have been closed by 15 August 2008.
  • Displaced seek shelter on higher ground on an abandoned railroad track.
SUdan. August 2008. Extremely heavy early rains inundated the areas around Aweil with floodwaters, displacing thousands of residents.  UN agencies and NGOs working with their governm
  • Migrants displaced by the recent xenophobic attacks have begun moving out of their temporary shelters in Gauteng, which were to have been closed by 15 August 2008
  • Aerial view of flooding in Aweil town. Sudan, August 2008.
Extremely heavy early rains inundated the areas around Aweil with floodwaters, displacing thousands of residents. UN agencies and NGOs working with their government partners are working to provid
  • Migrants displaced by the recent xenophobic attacks in a temporary shelter near the Rand Airport in Germiston, town outside Johannesburg.
  • Children displaced by flooding collect water from a submerged hand pump. Sudan. August 2008. Extremely heavy early rains inundated the areas around Aweil with floodwaters, displacing thousands of residents.  UN agencies and NGOs working with their governm
    Children displaced by flooding collect water from a submerged hand pump. Sudan.
  • Herders in northern Afghanistan said they had lost their cattle because of drought-related problems and were selling off their remaining animals.
  • MAIL said over two million animals had perished because of extremely cold weather and drought over the past 12 months.
  • Imams are often effective in spreading the anti-polio message at mosques.
  • Women bring in their children to be vaccinated at a Peshawar hospital.
  • Seaweed farming in Arenas Reef, Philippines.
  • Fairy basslet fish schooling over a coral reef in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
  • The Coral Triangle covers all or part of the seas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Fiji. It directly sustains more than 120 million people living within this area, and benefit millions more worldwide.
  • In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, many paddy farmers have opted for fishing instead.
  • In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which ravaged much of southern Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008, many paddy farmers like these outside Labutta, have given up farming and opted for fishing instead.
  • More than three months after Nargis struck southern Myanmar, many farmers like Maung Win have taken to fishing instead.
  • Yim Sokhorn gazes at his backyard, Boeng Kak lake, which is slated to become a construction site. Under Cambodia's development plan, lakes are quickly being filled and residents forced out.
  • A map of Yemen highlighting Saada and Amran provinces.
  • Daniel Delgado, HIV+ activist in Cape Verde.
  • Working girls in Eleme, Port Harcourt
  • May Thet - one of scores of young people badly affected by Cyclone Nargis. Nearly 140,000 people were left dead or missing by the category four storm.
  • A map of Vietnam and surrounding countries.
  • Sex shack in Eleme, Port Harcourt
  • The head of the local koranic school, Kamalu Ibrahim.
  • Sex worker in Kano.
  • Idris is a pimp and because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship – they exploit each other.
  • Page from a leaflet used to promote safe cooking of poultry produced as part of UN-backed avian influenza campaign in Laos in 2006.
  • A woman pins up an awareness-raising poster in Vientiane during a UN-backed avian influenza campaign in Laos in 2007.
  • Adam from Zimbabwe, who has just received his Section 22 permit, which allows him to stay in South Africa for six months while he awaits his interview for asylum. He queued for 12 hours along with thousands of other Southern Africans outside the Crown Min
    After a 12-hour wait in the queue, Adam from Zimbabwe received his Section 22 permit, which allows him to stay in South Africa for six months while he awaits his interview for asylum.
  • A queue of Southern Africans stretches down the street outside Crown Mines Asylum Determination Centre in Johannesburg.

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