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  • According to police records, every year 20-25 women in Jordan are killed “in the name of honour”, that is, for having an illicit affair.
  • Picking Up The Pieces - 2 October 2007.
  • At least 17,000 students and 900 teachers died in the October 2005 quake that ripped through Pakistani-administered Kashmir and the country's North West Frontier Province.
  • Throughout much of northern Pakistan, 800,000 students attend school in tents like this following the devastating 8 October 2005 earthquake. Some 8,000 out of a total of 11,534 primary and secondary schools were destroyed in the 7.6 magnitude quake.
  • IRIN Film background image - Picking Up The Pieces - 2 October 2007.
    Picking up the pieces - After two decades of war and displacement, it is dawning on the people of northern Uganda, they have a chance to go home
  • Nasreen Akhter, a teacher at the Chitti Mori government primary school in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, worries about the cracked walls of the classroom she teaches, but says there are no alternatives. 8,000 primary and secondary schools were destroyed
  • Nasrat Kazmi, a teacher at the Sherwan government primary school outside Muzaffarabad, teaches her class outside - two years after a devastating earthquake destroyed their school. At least 17,000 students and 900 teachers died in the 8 October 2005 - tha
  • Woman with HIV and Aids sell phone calls to get some money and fight against stigma in Mozambique.
  • Women with HIV and Aids sell phone calls to get some money and fight against the stigma in Mozambique.
  • A four-wheel vehicle carrying soldiers and villagers crosses a flooded section of the Moroto-Kotido road in Karamoja region, northeastern, Uganda, September 2007.
  • Displaced people carrying sacks of maize from the distribution centre organised by the UN World Food Programme, Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007. There has been a substantial increase in the number of people fleeing the conflict in Mogadishu, the Somali ca
  • A displaced woman passing Somali police guarding the food distribution, Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Most of the displaced were originally from Jowhar and had moved to Mogadishu but violence has forced them back home.
  • Displaced people show their identity cards to officials to get food during a food distribution, September 2007. Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other, pul
  • A displaced person waiting for food at Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. People have not been able to plant their fields.
  • Two young girls ferry water to their shelter, Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Recurrent flooding has affected water quality and hygiene conditions and destroyed crops, in turn leading to food price inflation.
  • Displaced people wait to be given food during a distribution organised by the UN World Food Programme, Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007.Hundreds of thousands of people are on the verge of starvation.
  • Somali police officers try to keep order during the food distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Food production has been dramatically curtailed.
  • Somali police officers try to keep order during the food distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Food production has been dramatically curtailed.
    Somali police officers try to keep order during a food distribution exercise in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • Somali police officers try to keep order during the food distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Food production has been dramatically curtailed.
  • Displaced women with their children outside the feeding centre in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. “My food, my food, my food!" they all yelled, fighting over the sack.
    Displaced women with their children outside a feeding centre in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • A young boy reaches out for food in a feeding centre in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. The minute the sack of grain fell off the truck and hit the ground, it was consumed in a whirl of dust, fists and knees.
    A young boy reaches out for food in a feeding centre in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • A guard keeps watch as the displaced people consider how to transport sacks of food, Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Tens of thousands of Somalis who fled the violence in the capital are facing a debilitating food shortage after poor rains.
    A guard keeps watch as the displaced people consider how to transport sacks of food in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • Displaced women carry a sack of food during a UN World Food Programme distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. During the holy month of Ramadan, food prices have gone up in Somalia.
    IDPs carry a sack of food during a WFP food distribution exercise in Jowhar, Somalia
  • A girl relaxes on the sacks of maize at the food distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Up to 1.5 million of Somalia's estimated seven million people need food aid. Nearly 300,000 face severe food shortages in the Horn of Africa nation.
    A girl rests on the sacks of maize at a WFP food distribution in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • Displaced women carry a sack of food during a UN World Food Programme distribution in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. During the holy month of Ramadan, food prices have gone up in Somalia.
    Displaced women carry a sack of food during a WFP food distribution exercise in Jowhar, Somalia. September 2007
  • A man and boy carry a sack-load of food during the distribution at Jowhar by the UN World Food Programme, Somalia, September 2007.
  • Salimatu Thoronka had both her legs amputated by rebels but is learning to become a breadwinner.
  • When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped.
  • A malnourished child examined by an officer from the UN Children’s Fund, Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Malnutrition rates are soaring. About 17 percent of children nationwide are malnourished, according to UNICEF. About 13,500 children are so severel
  • A mother and son wait for food in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Tens of thousands of Somalis who fled the violence in the capital are facing yet another humanitarian crisis, a debilitating food shortage after poor rains.
  • Displaced people waiting in line for food to be distributed, in hot and arid conditions in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis still face starvation.
  • Somali police keep watch over the food distribution by the UN World Food Programme in Jowhar, Somalia, September 2007. About 350,000 Somalis fled the fighting earlier this year in Mogadishu between government soldiers, supported by Ethiopian troops, and i

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