Search
Search
Journalism from the heart of crises

Photo Library

Journalist or researcher? Learn about using our images.

Photo Library

Displaying 20705 - 20736 of 44998
  • Children are particularly vulnerable to the hazards of landmines and UXOs
    The Mine Ban Treaty calls for assistance to landmine and UXO victims (file photo)
  • This Christmas will be very different from last Christmas. Back then most people were in the camps eating beans and maize from the WFP. This year most people will be eating food from their own land for the first time.
  • Farmer drying cocoa in Liberia.
  • Abandoned and overgrown cocoa farm in Liberia.
  • Children are becoming increasingly vulnerable to sexual abuse due to weak laws and a poor security situation.
  • A bird flu awareness poster reading: "Don't touch or get close to dead birds in order not to be infected. Be responsible and join us in the fight against bird flu."
  • Chicken remains hugely popular in Egypt as a source of nutrition.
  • Displaced people gather in Haidan district in Saada.
  • Arbitrary grazing has worsened the effects of a two-week long frost spell.
  • Mozambique map.
  • Fadia Awad and her son, Hamid, at their home in a Rashaida settlement outside Kassala.
    Fadia Awad e seu filho, Hamid
  • Alsawi Ali, one of the only openly HIV-positive people in Kassala, at his wedding.
    Alsawi Ali, uma dos raros seropositivos que vieram a público em Kassala, tem henna aplicada em suas mãos em seu casamento
  • A Sri Lankan child injured in one of the explosions in Buthala (about 250km southeast of Colombo) that killed 32 and injured 50.
  • Twenty-six people were killed in a claymore mine attack on a civilian bus in Buthala, about 250km southeast of Colombo, on 16 January 2008, the final day of the ceasefire agreement. Violence is expected to escalate.
  • Epupa Falls. The Namibian government has proposed building the Epupa Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Cunene. The dam may threaten the local ecosystem and therefore the economic basis of the local Himba ethnic group.
  • The Himba are a nomadic, pastoral people living in northern Namibia.
  • Hang out point for sex workers in São Tomé.
  • The final day of the Sri Lanka truce on 16 January 2007 was one of the bloodiest: 32 civilians were killed and over 50 injured in attacks in Buthala, about 250km southeast of Colombo.
  • Little wooden boxes for condoms are given to sex workers who participate in ALISEI´s sex education programs in São Tomé and Príncipe.
  • The Jordanian parliament building in Amman.
  • A woman sheds tears in agony, after being hit with teargas during the demonstration ongoing in Kenya, Mathare slums, Kenya January 2008.
    A woman sheds tears in agony, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • A demonstrator is hit by a stone during clash of rival political party supporters in Mathare slums, Nairobi, January 2008.
  • Demonstrators throw back tear gas to the police, Mathare slums, Nairobi, Kenya. 16 January 2008. This was the during the first day of the countrywide mass action that had been called by opposition leaders.
    Demonstrators throw back tear gas to the police, Mathare slums, Nairobi, Kenya. 16 January 2008
  • Thousands of children work as bonded labourers in Pakistan's brick kilns - their grins often disguising the hardship of the life they lead.
  • A volunteer nurse with Save a Child's Heart, Maureen, and two year old Salma, from Gaza City. Maureen prepares Salma for an EKG.
  • Six-month old Jamal and his grandmother Haifa, from the Gaza Strip, during a checkup.
  • Girls and their children at the government run maternal hostel in Burkina Faso.
  • A map of carbon monoxide draped on the globe developed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. Developed under the direction of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), AIRS measures the key atmospheric gases affect
  • Internally displaced people seek shelter at the Nakuru show grounds, Kenya. January 2008. Thousand of people have been displaced following the post election violence that hit Kenya recently.
    Internally displaced people seeking shelter at the Nakuru show grounds.
  • Susan Maina was forced to flee for safety with her family from Burnt forest area and now is seeks shelter at the Nakuru showground with her family. Kenya. January 2008. Many families have been displaced as a result of post election violence that occurred
    Susan Maina was forced to flee for safety with her family from Burnt Forest area.
  • Children and the elderly are what is left in Mramani.
  • The Sidoargjo Mud Flow Mitigation Agency, a national entity, has been constructing levees, some as high as 18 metres, to contain the mud and keep it from nearby communities, however torrential rains and land subsidence have caused occasional breaches in t

Become a member of The New Humanitarian

Support our journalism and become more involved in our community. Help us deliver informative, accessible, independent journalism that you can trust and provides accountability to the millions of people affected by crises worldwide.

Join