Search
Search
Journalism from the heart of crises

Photo Library

Journalist or researcher? Learn about using our images.

Photo Library

Displaying 21057 - 21088 of 44998
  • Anti-personel landmine warning on the road to Nouadibou. Some 65 communities in the country are menaced. The government has asked donors for US$14m to clear them. Mines are a relic of fighting in the 1970s involving Mauritania and Morocco and the Polisari
  • On the road to Nouadibou. Some 65 desert communities in rural Mauritania are menaced by mines.
  • Delegates applaud the decision to adopt the Bali Roadmap.
  • A room in half built building where some displaced people stay. Israel/OPT, December 2007. They spread mattresses on floor at night- and plastic paper on the windows.
  • Displaced boy tending sheep in a cave, Israel/OPT, December 2007.
  • Abdul Halim watering sheep. Israel/OPT, December 2007. The water is supplied by international aid groups.
    Abdul Halim watering sheep, Israel/OPT
  • At Panchu market in Surabaya the feathers fly and the floors are covered in blood and chicken entrails. The bird sellers say they are unconcerned about the risk of avian flu or a pandemic. Indonesia, December 2007.
  • Maryati, a chicken-seller at Pucang market in Surabaya told IRIN: “I’ve never been frightened of bird flu… I’ve heard about cases of human avian flu but I’m not worried.” Indonesia, December 2007.
    Maryati, a chicken-seller at Panchu market, Indonesia
  • At the Pucang Market in Surabaya the feathers fly and the floors are slick with blood and chicken entrails. The bird sellers say they are unconcerned about the risk of avian flu or a pandemic. Indonesia, December 2007.
  • A specially-trained nurse (wearing full-biohazard protection) who works in the isolation unit at the East Java Provincial Hospital. Indonesia, December 2007.
  • Dr Teguh Sylvaranto, vice-director of medical services at East Java Provincial Hospital (third from left) with members of his specialist medical unit that treats human avian flu cases, and Dr Jonathan Agranoff, the UN Avian Influenza and Pandemic Prepared
  • A high-tech isolated unit, with negative air-pressure and biohazard safeguards at the East Java Provincial Hospital which has had 12 suspected cases of human avian flu since 2006 with four patients proving to have the disease and two ultimately dying, Ind
  • At the Pucang Market in Surabaya the feathers fly and the floors are slick with blood and chicken entrails. The bird sellers say they are unconcerned about the risk of avian flu or a pandemic. December 2007.
  • Amilcar Contreras, head surgeon of an ICRC back-up team that arrived in Chad on 2 Decemeber.
  • In Niger it is women that do most of the work.
  • Hadjo Garbo, victim of an early marriage in Niger at age 13. She was pregnant by 14 and suffered a fistula after three days in labour and a still-birth.
  • Abdur Rashid lost their 3 year old son when Cyclone Sidr slammed into the country on 15 November 2007. More than one month after the disaster, close to 900 people remain missing.
  • Faridabegum Musulli, 35, lost her husband when Cyclone Sidr struck southwestern Bangladesh on 15 November 2007, killing over 3,000 and leaving millions homeless. His body has never been found. More than one month after the disaster, close to 900 people re
  • Mahmuda and Jesmin, both 22, lost their children to Cyclone Sidr. Their bodies have never been found. More than 3,000 people were killed and millions more left homeless when the cyclone struck on 15 November 2007. More than one month after the disaster, c
  • Post-tsunami aid: a beneficiary drags barbed wire given as post-tsunami reconstruction aid by the Catholic charity, Caritas, in southern Sri Lanka in early December 2007.
  • Zeinab Ali, an IDP form Mogadishu in Bosasso IDP Camp.
  • Antonio Guterres, the High Commissioner of the refugee agency, UNHCR, at the end of a four-day visit to the DRC.
  • The giant Buddha of Pereliya, built as a memorial to those killed in the train wreck., 27 December 2004.
  • The train wreck in Pereliya Village in Galle District, southern Sri Lanka the day after the tsunami hit, 27 December 2004.
  • Post-tsunami aid: a drags barbed wire given as post-tsunami reconstruction aid by the Catholic charity, Caritas, in southern Sri Lanka in early December 2007.
  • The giant Buddha of Pereliya, built as a memorial for those killed in the train wreck.
  • The train wreck in Pereliya Village in Galle District, southern Sri Lanka the day after the tsunami hit, 27 December 2004.
  • At least 800 families have been displaced as a result of fighting in Musa Qala District, according to the UN and Afghan government.
  • Afghan and international forces retook control of Musa Qala District on 10 December
    Afghan and international forces retook control of Musa Qala District on 10 December
  • Toilets at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegal capital, Dakar, do not have accommodations for physically handicapped students. (November 2007)
  • Dorm room for physically handicapped students at Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University. (November 2007)
  • Social and medical services building at Cheikh Anta Diop University is one of few buildings that have handicap accessibility.

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