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  • A young mother and her son named Nargis in the remnants of their makeshift home in Myanmar's cyclone-affected Ayeyarwaddy Delta.
  • In many villages, people have no choice but to use boats for transportation due to roads destroyed by floods.
  • Torrential rainfall in eastern Nepal has impacted hundreds of families in the area.
  • IDPs at Ngecha All Nations Gospel Church in Limuru.
  • Stephen Kariuki Gichuhi, chairman of the IDPs at Ngecha All Nations Gospel Church in Limuru.
  • Pastor Daniel Kihuha, the founding pastor of the Ngecha All Nations Gospel Church, in Ngecha, Limuru, where 260 IDPs have sought shelter.
  • A recent lecture in Nazareth about empowering Arab women in Israel.
  • A typical house in Koindu, southeastern Sierra Leone close to the border with Liberia and Guinea, where the war was at its worst and reconstruction has barely begun.
  • For many people in Koindu, southeastern Sierra Leone, home is a burned out structure with plastic or leaves for roofing.
  • Theresa, 16 (centre), is a war orphan struggling to feed and cloth herself and her two year-old child. She has used transactional sex to get by in the past and does not know who is the father of her child.
  • Mustapha, 12 (left) and John, 14 (right) are both war orphans living in Koindu, Sierra Leone. After their parents were killed they were taken in by family friends, but say they suffer physical abuse and have taken to living in the street.
  • Joshua, 16, is struggling to cope with the psychological effect of seeing his parents killed during the war.
  • a child afflicted with polio getting his physiotherapy at the Polio Clinic at Karachi's Civil Hospital.
  • Students attending an open class in Kabul in 2007. Hundreds of schools have been shut owing to attacks on education mostly in southern provinces, according to the ministry of education.
  • An image of the earth’s interrelated systems and climate created by four different satellites. The average temperature of the earth's surface has risen by 0.74 degrees Celsius since the late 1800s.
    Une image des systèmes interdépendants et du climat de la terre créée à partir de quatre satellites différents. La température moyenne à la surface de la terre a augmenté de 0,74 degré Celsius depuis la fin des années 1800
  • In this image, the blue/purple areas show low ozone, while the red areas indicate higher ozone levels. Although ozone is considered a pollutant in the troposphere?the atmospheric layer that contains the air we breathe?in higher altitudes, notably in the s
  • UNAIDS has released its 2008 report on the global epidemic.
  • The Bijagos archipelago is increasingly being used as a transit point for drugs trafficking.
  • Fishing boats in Bissau harbour.
  • Abdullah Dieng, a fisherman in the capital, Bissau, says he struggles to make ends meet and regularly fishes at a loss.
  • The army has deployed in both neighbourhoods but has been unable to force either side to maintain a ceasefire.
  • Rifat Eid, the leader of the Allawi community in Jebel Mohsen, sits under a picture of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. "In Tripoli most people are with Hariri but they never gave us rights as Allawis," said Eid.
  • The home of Khaled Mansour, a Sunni Muslim from Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh, was destroyed by RPGs fired at dawn, they said, from neighbouring Jebel Mohsen.
  • A view from Allawi-majority Jebel Mohsen across to the Sunni neighbourhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh. Clashes between fighters from the two sides since June have killed 23 people, injured hundreds and displaced nearly 6,000 families.
  • Residents often have to rely on police reservists and have organised local security to safeguard their livestock.
  • John Ichom, a teacher at a Catholic mission nursery school in the Kaeris area of the Turkana North district.
  • Local children play a game of marbles next to a traffic control point in Jamiya, Iraq. Children in Iraq are vulnerable to militant and criminal influence.
  • A young mother and her son Nargis in the remnants of their makeshift home in Myanmar's cyclone-affected Ayeyarwaddy Delta.
  • Young women are much more vulnerable to HIV than young men in many countries in Africa.
  • Mak Phet students serve FAO Goodwill Ambassador and international football star Roberto Baggio (bottom right) organic Lao food during a 2007 visit.
  • Students prepare food under the guidance of teachers. The program, established by the NGO Friends International, provides vocational training for former street kids, with the support of the Lao Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Vientiane and financ
  • Former street kids being trained in the restaurant business in the Mak Phet restaurant kitchen in Vientiane, Laos.

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