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  • Empty shelves at a Harare supermarket 21 July 2007. Since government launched "Operation Reduce Prices", compelling businesses to slash prices by fifty percent in a bid combat the rampant inflation of over 4,000 percent - and imprisoning businesspeople wh
  • Margaret Zania, 60, a petty trader in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is all that seven-year-old Mwajuma Rajabu has in the world since her parents died of HIV/AIDS in 2005.
  • Tatai Masokela in the waiting room of the Baylor Children’s Centre of Excellence, in Maseru, Lesotho, with his son Mohau, 2, dozing on his lap. Mohau is HIV positive.
  • Smoke rises from a house after clashes in the Nawzad District of Helmand Province in June 2007.
  • An empty and devastated Bazaar in Helmand Province.
  • Civilians have increasingly become the main victims of conflict in Afghanistan.
  • Matumelo Rapita, 29, lives in a mountainous region of Lesotho. The wife of a sheepherder who works away from home for six months at a time, Mutemelo recently tested positive. Her fourth child died aged six months. knew how it was transmitted, or that it
  • Pheello Lethola, a doctor with MSF talks to 5-year old Ntsebo Setlolela and her grandmother, Manthati Motanyane, at the Red Cross clinic in Kena.
  • A nurse draws blood from an infant at the Baylor Children’s Centre of Excellence in Maseru, Lesotho. Thirty percent of the 1,150 children accessing antiretroviral treatment in Lesotho are receiving it at this clinic
  • An NGO official verifies details of a group of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) waiting to receive food aid at Cagala, Walungu Territory of South Kivu Province, DRC. 27 July 2007. The Republic of Congo and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC
    An NGO official verifies details of a group of (IDPs) waiting to receive food aid at South Kivu Province, DRC.
  • Maroyi Sanganira, 38, an IDP in Walungu, South Kivu Province. 27 July 2007.
  • Internally displaced women carrying a sack of maizemeal distributed by an NGO, Malteser International, on 27 July at Cagala, Walungu Territory of South Kivu. 27 July 2007. An estimated 200 000 to 230 000 refugees from various different countries from the
  • A group of internally displaced people at a food distribution centre in Cagala, Walungu Territory of South Kivu Province. July 2007. It is estimated 200 000 to 230 000 refugees from various different countries have sought shelter in DRC.
  • Janet Furaha, an IDP in Walungu, South Kivu Province. July 2007.
  • One of the young workers at the Dhaka port carries chain and spanners, Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. There is no formal worker-management relationship, job security or social safety-net schemes for them. 98% of the labor in scrapping yards are illite
    One of the young workers at the Dhaka port carries chain and spanners, Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • Policemen break a demonstration by residents of Mathare Slums in the capital Nairobi Kenya, July 31, 2007. The demonstrations were sparked off due to an illegal water disconnection by the authorities leaving the sprawling slum dwellers taps running dry fo
  • 30-year-old Zimbabwean Diana waits at the Beit Bridge border for a truck to take her to Durban where she will sell crafts to earn some money for her children.
  • Peter (20) and Kudzai (18) jumped the border two weeks ago.
  • A truck full of goods for Zimbabwe. As a new business a Zimbabwean bulk trader now takes women over the border to do their personal shopping.
  • Claudine Ngomora, 25, an internally displaced mother of five, DRC Kivu, July 2007. She was at a food distribution centre at Cagala, Walungu Territory, South Kivu Province. At least 53,000 people were internally displaced in the province, according to June
  • Mother of three Anisah Kaseb, 58, says the relentless violence in Iraq pushed her son to commit suicide and her daughter to attempt suicide twice.
  • Owiny Lakaragic, 52, who has returned directly to his own land at Omungubi from Acet camp in eastern Gulu district. Northern Uganda, 6 July 2007.
    Owiny Lakaragic, 52, who has returned directly to his own land at Omungubi from Acet camp in eastern Gulu district. Northern Uganda, 6 July 2007.
  • Children in Odienne, northwestern Cote d'Ivoire.
  • Iraq's victory in the Asian Cup final gave refugees in Damascus a rare moment of joy.
  • Traders sell fruit by candlelight in the market, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The labour market is dynamic, with workers arriving every day hoping to carve out a decent living for themselves and their families.
    Traders sell fruit by candlelight in the market, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • Flood victims lack access to humanitarian aid due to the destruction of roads and bridges.
  • Traders selling fruit by candlelight in the market, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The labour market is dynamic, with workers arriving every day hoping to carve out a decent living for themselves and their families.
  • A boy carries pieces of leather from the tannery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Without an education or formal vocational training, these children move into adulthood as unskilled labourers, highly vulnerable to changing social or economic conditions.
    A boy carrying pieces of leather from the tannery, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
  • A woman collects rubbish from the bank of the polluted Buriganga river, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Poisonous waste is thrown into the river every day, from 158 tanneries in Dhaka city. The river contains 60 times higher chromium levels than the permiss
  • A mother and her child making bricks, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The labour force in Dhaka grew twice as fast as in the country as a whole in the late 1990s largely due to continuing migration and increasing female participation in the labour-force.
  • One of the young workers with makeshift shoes engaged in brick making, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Low wages, underemployment, unemployment and low skill levels are all challenges facing the poor.
    A worker with makeshift shoes engaged in brick making in Dhaka
  • A young girl pauses from brick-making, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The appeal of the capital city is strong with prospects for employment in a range of sectors.
    ARCHIVE: A young girl making bricks, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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