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  • A child works in a stone quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. Most parents have been left jobless. Consequently, parents are increasingly unable to afford the school fees to educate their children. The next step is to put them on the streets to supplement famil
  • A young boy breaks stones at a quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. Child workers can get jobs as street vendors, quarry workers, water carriers, porters (kuzezera), domestics, well and refuse- tip diggers, carpenters, market cooks, grass-cutters, bottle collect
  • A woman watches children working at a stone quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. An international trade organisation has condemned the serious and widespread use of child labour and the worsening workers' basic rights in Zambia.
    A woman watches children working at a stone quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. An international trade organisation has condemned the serious and widespread use of child labour and the worsening workers' basic rights in Zambia.
  • A child works at a stone quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. The problem of ballooning child labour is due to rising joblessness among parents as companies buckle under Zambia's harsh economic climate, and a cost-saving government cuts back on its public sector
    A child works at a stone quarry, Zambia
  • People working at a stone quarry, Zambia, 7 March 2007. Most parents have been left jobless. The consequence is that parents are increasingly unable to afford the school fees to educate their children. The next step is to put them on the streets to supple
    People working at a stone quarry, Zambia
  • Young Boro Adam offering camel milk as a sign of gratitude to visitors in Wesitu, Ethiopia, April 2007.
  • Pastoralist communities in some areas of Ethiopia treat camels as wealth, April 2007.
  • Jemal Adam looking after his camels in Wesitu village, 27 km from Adama, Ethiopia, April 2007.
  • Pastoralist communities in some areas of Ethiopia treat camels as wealth, April 2007.
  • Yemen's government and the WHO have begun a polio immunisation drive targeting 1.3 million children under the age of five.
  • Women with a new born baby walking out of the Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007. Over two decades of war and conflict have had dire consequences for the health of the Afghan people, especially women and children. Destruction of health f
    Women with a new born baby, Afghanistan
  • A nurse holds a baby at the Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007.
  • Woman waits for a doctor to examine one of her child at the Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007.
  • A sick baby being examined by a doctor at Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007.
  • Women outside Faizabad maternity hospital, Afghanistan, March 2007. Over two decades of war and conflict have had dire consequences for the health of the Afghan people, especially women and children. Destruction of hospitals and clinics, the flight of tra
  • Parents try to keep their children out of 'gun-school'.
  • Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director UN Habitat, giving a speech during opening of the 21st session of the governing council of the UN Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2007. The session focused on the theme of Sustainable Urbanisation: local action for u
  • A Nigerian street with campaign posters for Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria, 16 April 2007. Babatunde Fashola is running for the post of governor in the country’s upcoming elections.
    Campaign posters depicting Babatunde Fashola for the upcoming elections, Nigeria
  • Homework club in London - Negligence and frustration can lead to under-achievement.
  • "I concentrated hard on my studies to stop myself from thinking about what has happened to me" - Houdan, reading for a degree in bio-medical technology.
  • Dealing with the paperwork - Deqa, in London, struggles to understand an eviction order.
  • A long dry spell has wilted maize fields - drought 2006.
  • Nepalese women carry World Food Programe food assistance to their villages in the mountains, Nepal, 12 April 2007. There is virtually no road network in Nepal's food-insecure Jumla district.
  • [Nepal] Real time monitoring ensures that WFP gets food to those most in need faster. The data is vital in getting food to food-insecure areas of Nepal. [Date picture taken: 14/04/2007]
  • [Nepal] WFP field monitor, Basanta Acharya, speaking with residents of Jumla about their current food needs. The district is one of the most food-insecure in Nepal. [Date picture taken: 15/04/2007]
  • [Nepal] Sunil Pant, president of the Blue Diamond Society, says donors are not giving enough for HIV prevention efforts amongst Nepal's MSM community. [Date picture taken: 12/04/2007]
  • [Nepal] Homosexuality is not explicitely criminalised, however, 'any kind of unnatural sex' can bring a year's prison term. [Date picture taken: 12/04/2007]
  • [Nepal] Members of Paschimtara's outreach team in Nepal's southern border town of Nepalganj. HIV awareness amongst the area's MSM community remains low. [Date picture taken: 02/04/2007]
  • [Nepal] Kumar Chhetri, 23, an outreach educator for Nepal's Blue Diamond Society speaking with a member of the MSM community in Kathmandu's Ratna park. [Date picture taken: 12/04/2007]
  • Girls are considered a better investment - An increasing number of Somali girls are being sent abroad.
  • "She will miss her parents because she is young, but it cannot be avoided - there is no education here" - Arriving in the children's house, Carlslund Refugee Centre, Sweden.
  • Nelson Khethani, a street vendor outside a "bad building" from which he faces eviction.

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