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  • A young boy engages in traditional brick-making in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. More than 400,000 children in Dhaka work from dawn until dusk each day to help support their families.
  • Young workers engage in traditional brick-making in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. In Bangladesh, about 4,500 brick kilns are in operation, producing about 9 billion bricks per year
  • A local worker weaves a garment at a makeshift workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Migrants flock to the city in search of jobs and better lives.
    A local worker weaves a garment at a makeshift workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • A local worker weaves a garment at a makeshift workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Migrants flock to the city in search of jobs and better lives.
    A local worker weaves a garment at a makeshift workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Workers trading jack fruits brought in by boats from other parts of the country, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Jack fruit is abundant during the rainy season.
    Workers trading jack fruits brought in by boats from other parts of the country. Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Children at the local market display fish for sale in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. More than 400,000 children in the city of Dhaka work from dawn until dusk each day to help support their families.
  • A local carries jack fruit in the market in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The plants are an important attraction to tree lovers and planters who visit the national tree fair in Dhaka.
  • A worker carries a basket full of jack fruit in the local market, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Jack fruit is abundant during the rainy season.
  • Workers carry sand from a ship docked at the city Port, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Low wages, under-employment, unemployment and low skill levels are all challenges facing the poor.
  • Dock workers take a break to keep fit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The migrants contribute to the city’s economic development by providing vital labour to manufacturing and services.
  • Local workers carry sand from a ship that has just docked at City Port, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The demand for workers and services in the growing industries of Dhaka has prompted large-scale migration from rural areas.
  • On 27 July 2007, 13 people were killed by a suicide bomber in Islamabad's busy Aapara market district, just a stone's throw away from the recently besieged Red Mosque, which was stormed by security forces after a week-long siege.
  • Security forces outside the freshly repainted Red Mosque in Islamabad, where scores were killed during a week-long siege by Pakistani security forces in July 2007. The military operation has heightened security concerns not just in the country, but throug
  • Male members of the community in Mansehra discuss quake recovery efforts now under way in the area. The area was devastated by the October 2005 quake which ravaged much of NWFP and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
  • Workers repairing the ships at the port, work bare feet, in Dhaka city’s port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Occupational accidents, injury and deaths are very frequent and normal events, there is no systematic monitoring structure of health among workers in s
    Workers repairing the ships at the port, work bare feet, in Dhaka city’s port, Bangladesh, 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
  • Workers tow a ship for repairs into Dhaka city’s port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Thousands of workers work in the industry with a poor salary of 1.75 U. S. dollars a day.
    Workers tow a ship for repairs into Dhaka city’s port, Bangladesh
  • Workers suspend on the side of the ships at the port, as they repair them, Dhaka city port, Bangladesh, July 2007. The work in the ship-breaking yards is mostly labor-intensive and 100% contract-based. There is no formal worker-management relationship, jo
    Workers suspend on the side of the ships at the port, as they repair them, Dhaka city port, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • Workers tow at a ship that is being brought in for repairs at the Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Workers receive potential negative health impacts from traditional working procedures adopted in the scrapping yards such as: torch cutting without prote
  • Workers tow at a ship that is being brought in for repairs at the Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Workers receive potential negative health impacts from traditional working procedures adopted in the scrapping yards such as: torch cutting without prote
  • Workers tow at a ship that is being brought in for repairs at the Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Workers receive potential negative health impacts from traditional working procedures adopted in the scrapping yards such as: torch cutting without prote
  • Workers tow at a ship that is being brought in for repairs at the Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. Workers receive potential negative health impacts from traditional working procedures adopted in the scrapping yards such as: torch cutting without prote
    Workers tow at a ship that is being brought in for repairs at the Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • A worker repairs one of the ships docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Dhaka is a city of opportunity for many. Migrants flock to the city in search of jobs and better lives.
    A worker repairs one of the ships docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • Desertification and deforestation exacerbate Afghanistan's vulnerability to natural disasters.
  • Workers repairing a ship that is docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. No available data or reports exist on workers health in ship-breaking industries in the region, more specifically in Bangladesh. This indicate that there is no, and there
    Workers repairing a ship that is docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • Workers repairing a ship that is docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. No available data or reports exist on workers health in ship-breaking industries in the region, more specifically in Bangladesh. This indicate that there is no, and there
    Workers repairing a ship that is docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007
  • A worker repairs one of the ships docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. Dhaka is a city of opportunity for many. Migrants flock to the city in search of jobs and better lives.
    A worker repairs one of the ships docked at the port in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Dalson Oyo, camp commander Aloto resettlement site 25km south of Kitgum, digging the new school’s latrines along with other villagers: Uganda. July 2007.
  • Dalson Oyo, camp commander Aloto resettlement site 25km south of Kitgum diggind a new school’s latrine, Northern Uganda, July 2007.
  • Dalson Oyo, camp commander Aloto resettlement site 25km south of Kitgum, Northern Uganda, July 2007.
  • Owiny Lakaragic, 52, who has returned directly to his own land at Omungubi from Acet camp in eastern Gulu district, Norther Uganda, 6 July 2007.
  • Monica Atto, 24, Former LRA abductee and soldier, Gulu Town, Northern Uganda, 10 July 2007.

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