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  • Kuchis widely suffer lack of access to health services and have a high maternal and infant mortality rate in the country.
  • According to a government official, there were about 800,000 African migrants living in Yemen at the end of 2007. Most were Somalis.
  • Dhanapala's daughter, Nilmini Dhammika, carries her young daughter amid other children from the Padu community. She said her father and others tried to return to their jungle home several times, but they were turned back.
  • Dil Raushan, 23, washing dishes in the street in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.
  • Dil Raushan, 23, lives in Bholar Basti, an urban slum of Dhaka. She is lucky that she can use the toilet of the house where she works as a part time domestic helper. Her husband, a rickshaw puller and tens of thousands like him, are not so lucky.
  • For women in Kamra, in rural northern Punjab, having latrines installed in their homes has proved a Godsend. Only one in four residents in their area have access to a functioning latrine.
  • A recently installed slab toilet in Pakistan's northern Punjab province. In many parts of rural Pakistan, large numbers of residents do not have access to a functioning latrine
  • Simple slab toilets such as this are largely nonexistent in many parts of rural Pakistan - despite the obvious health benefits.
  • "You can't immagine how difficult is for women," says 25-year-old teacher Zarqa Saeed on the fact that most homes in her area don't have functioning latrines - obliging women to defecate in the open air.
  • A recently installed outdoor latrine in Kamra, northern Punjab province.
  • Mohammad Ahmad Nafees, 9, smiles to the camera as he points to where he used to relieve himself near his home in Kamra, northern Punjab province. His home has since been installed with a latrine. Nearly 80 percent of area residents do not have access to a
  • Nine-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Nafees smiles to the camera while pointing to the nearby field where he used to defecate openly in the rural mountain village of Kamra, northern Punjab province. His home has since had a latrine installed.
  • Armed vehicle for security in the Oure cassoni camp. All vehicles coming and getting out of the camp have to be escorted.
  • Merchants passing by the Oure Cassoni refugee camp on their way to Bahai just two kilometres from the Sudanese border.
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)’s vehicles are under heavy surveillance in the Oure Cassoni camp. Looting is a big problem for NGO’s.
  • A vehicle belonging to the NGO CARE, used by staff working with refugees from Darfur in the refugee camp Oure Cassoni. NGO’s are the first target in case of clashes and their vehicles are frequently hijacked.
  • Guard at the entrance of the refugee camp Oure Cassoni in eastern Chad. Insecurity and banditry are major problems in the camp.
  • Ailton Lima, former IDU and HIV+ in Cape Verde.
  • Refugee children from Darfur racing in the camp of Oure Cassoni. Donkeys are used to look for wood or water.
  • The camp of Oure Cassoni. This is the biggest camp in eastern Chad with 28,000 people living there since they fled Darfur in 2003.
  • A warning sign that the water is unsafe.
    Warning sign - not a drop to drink
  • Douw Coetzee and the dam on his property that contains very high levels of uranium.
    Douw Coetzee and the dam on his property that contains very high levels of uranium
  • Rene Potgieter, local resident and activist on the issue.
  • War-displaced Rammalappu Dhanapala in his shrine in Panama, eastern Sri Lanka. His Padu community was evicted from the Kumana forest by government authorities who feared the area had been infiltrated by Tamil Tiger separatist rebels.
  • A refugee who has been accepted for resettlement draws a tree as a part of an IOM cultural orientation project in Mae La refugee camp, Thailand. February 2008.
  • Saw Eh Mwee, a Karen refugee, said he wants to be resettled in another country because “in Thailand we have no right of movement and for the past 20 years I have had no employment”
  • A group of displaced women gather to await distribution of clothes donated to them at the Nairobi Showground camp for the internally displaced on 13 February 2008.
    Women gather to await distribution of clothes at the Nairobi Showground camp for displaced people.
  • Water & sanitation.
    Break down on latrine usage in Bangladesh
  • UN high commissioner for refugees Antonio Guterres during hsi week-long trip to the region.
  • Some 120,000sqkm planted with fruit and vegetables were harmed by sever frost in Jordan.
  • A medical team from the NGO Merlin was overwhelmed by crowds in a district in Badakhshan where seven children had died from pneumonia.
  • Rorum Jaem, born in 1927, fled the fighting in Chad’s capital last week on foot. He does not plan to return to Chad.

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