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  • Map of Ukraine showing the frontline between the rebel-held east and the rest of the country, as of April 2015.
  • Cars line up at the government checkpoint near Artemivsk town in eastern Ukraine. New government orders have made it harder for people and goods to cross from rebel-held to government-held areas.
    Cars line up at the government checkpoint near Artemivsk
  • Recent arrivals to Debrecen centre for asylum seekers in eastern Hungary have to find a place to sleep outside. The centre's official capacity is 1,000 but currently over 2,000 people are staying there.
  • Razor wire surrounds Debrecen centre for asylum seekers in eastern Hungary. Parts of the centre are "open" but the facility also contains a unit for detaining asylum seekers considered at risk of absconding.
    Razor wire surrounds the Debrecen centre. Parts of the facility are open while one section is for detaining asylum seekers considered at risk of absconding.
  • New arrivals at the Debrecen centre for asylum seekers in Hungary have to sleep outside because of overcrowding. The centre has an official capacity of 1,000 but currently has about 2,000 people staying there.
  • Some of the conflict-affected women including mothers of children born of war pose for a picture in Awach, Gulu district during JRP study.
    Some of the conflict-affected women including mothers of children born of war pose for a picture in Awach, Gulu district during JRP study
  • Basim Mansour Yohanna, 55, Assyrian Christian from Qaraqosh, displaced by IS to Erbil in Summer 2014. Picture taken June 2015
    Basim Mansour Yohanna est un chrétien assyrien de 55 ans, qui a fui pour échapper à l’État islamique à l’été 2014. Il se sent trahi par ses voisins arabes qui sont restés sur place et ont pillé sa propriété.
  • The children born of war and their mothers performing Acholi traditional dance in Atiak sub county, Amuru district
    The children born of war and their mothers performing Acholi traditional dance in Atiak sub county, Amuru district
  • The members of Awach tailoring group, Gulu district. The group is of mothers of children born out of war and other conflict related
    The members of Awach tailoring group, Gulu district. The group is of mothers of children born out of war and other conflict related situations
  • "If there was a strong government, we would be safe, but without a strong government, they will attack us again," says Suham Yusif, 56, a Christian from Qaraqosh who lives in the Ainkawa camp, after fleeing IS in Summer 2014, with her husband and their th
  • Mohad, a Somali refugee, reunites with his wife and children at Warsaw airport in Poland after five years apart
  • The camp backs up to Rwanda’s border with Tanzania. The river flowing alongside the camp marks the boundary.
    « Pouvez-vous croire qu’il y a 161 000 réfugiés [burundais] ? » L’auteur aspire à rétablir la stabilité dans son pays.
  • A farmer from Mansantigie village in Sierra Leone works his fields during the Ebola outbreak.
  • Araya, an Eritrean refugee living in Birmingham, is trying to reunite with her husband and the father of her 2-year-old daughter, but his application was refused.
  • Mary Nsabimana looks out over the tents of Mahama Camp. She wouldn’t allow her face to be photographed because she fears repercussions for her two brothers who remain behind in Burundi.
  • A group of refugee men work together to clear a termite mound in preparation for fresh construction. The camp went from virgin scrubland to a city of 29,000 inhabitants in under 10 weeks.
  • A view between tents within the Mahama refugee camp. Families live extremely close together, and cooking must be done outside.
    Nearly half of all refugees now spend more than five years living in exile
  • The Philippines' ferry Princess of the Stars ferry sank on 21 June 2008 and killed 437 passengers
    One of a string of disasters in the Philippines, the Princess of the Stars ferry sank on 21 June 2008 and killed 437 passengers
  • Days of heavy rain in June 2015 left the roads and buildings in Cameroon's Douala city flooded.
  • An Indian soldier in Srinagar in the state of Jammu and Kashmir
  • The number of floods per year across Africa between 1961 and 2013.
  • More than 2,000 people lost their homes to flooding in Douala, Cameroon, after days of heavy rain during the week of 20 June 2015.
  • Villagers in Ganyiel, a small village surrounded by swampland in southern Unity State of South Sudan, have become accustomed to seeing planes airdrop bags of cereal and pulses but seeing vegetable oil falling from the sky was something new. This happened
  • The business of humanitarian aid and who holds the purse strings
  • Except from One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Tailoring the International Response to the National Need Following Vanuatu’s Cyclone Pam - an NGO report published June 2015
    Un extrait du rapport One size doesn’t fit all sur l’intervention au Vanuatu au lendemain du cyclone Pam, en mars 2015
  • While most aid work is done by local and national NGOs, they receive only a tiny fraction of direct humanitarian funding
    While most aid work is done by local and national NGOs, they receive only a tiny fraction of direct humanitarian funding
  • Migrants and asylum seekers queue up at Mytilene Port on the Greek island of Lesvos waiting for police clearance.
  • Migrants gather outside the identification centre at Moria on Greece's Lesvos Island to hear the names of the lucky few who will be accommodated inside. The rest will have to sleep in a makeshift camp outside.
  • A child from the Hassakeh region of northern Syria displaced by the advance of militants from the Islamic State in June 2015
    Un enfant de la région d’Hassakeh, au nord de la Syrie, que l’État islamique a contraint au déplacement.
  • A child from the Hassakeh region of northern Syria in a displacement camp after his family fled the advance of the so-called Islamic State
    UNICEF estimates that half of the 50,000 displaced from Hassakeh are children
  • Relatives of a student killed last night in the Jabe neighbourhood of Bujumbura mourn at home in the Burundian capital on June 28, 2015. At least two people were killed last night during violence
    Relatives of a student killed last night in the Jabe neighbourhood of Bujumbura mourn at home in the Burundian capital on June 28, 2015. At least two people were killed last night during violence
  • Refugees and migrants, packed aboard a fishing boat in the hope of reaching Europe. They were rescued by the Italian Navy as part of their Mare Nostrum operation in June 2014.

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