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  • [Pakistan] Female UN staff members working in quake-affected areas of northern Pakistan have worked hard to adhere to local sensitivities and customs in terms of dress codes. [Date picture taken: 09/10/2006]
    UN staff members adhere to local dress codes
  • [Pakistan] Shafqatullah Cheema, the UN’s Area Coordinator for Muzaffarabad, capital of quake affected Pakistani-administered Kashmir. [Date picture taken: 09/09/2006]
  • [Pakistan] The UN camp in Muzaffarabad and a major staging point for humanitarian relief efforts in quake-affected northern Pakistan, will close on 30 September, 2006. [Date picture taken: 09/09/2006]
    The UN camp in Muzaffarabad and a major staging point for humanitarian relief efforts in quake-affected northern Pakistan, will close on 30 September
  • [Uganda] Lydia Wanyoto Mutende, Ugandan member of parliament in the East African Legislative Assembly, during a Great Lakes conference in Nairobi, Kenya, on 7 September 2006. [Date picture taken: 09/07/2006]
  • [Lebanon] UN helicopter transporting Italian troups frpm the sea to the lebanese shore in tyre. [Date picture taken: 09/07/2006]
  • [Johannesburg] Petronella Makhanya is caring for two of her own grandchildren as well as two children left behind when another granny died last year. [Date picture taken: 09/06/2006]
    Petronella Makhanya is caring for two of her own grandchildren as well as two children left behind when another granny died last year
  • [DRC] The NGO ACS/Amocongo provides care and support to thousands of people living with HIV. [Date picture taken: July 2006]
    L'antenne d'ACS/Amocongo au Katanga soutient 1 500 orphelins du sida et leur entourage
  • [Lebanon] James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
[Date picture taken: 09/07/2006]
    James Morris, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
  • [Sudan] Col Ali Muktar, representative of Minni Minnawi's faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), on the African Union ceasefire commission. 
[Date picture taken: 09/07/2006]
    Col. Ali Muktar, representative of Minni Minnawi's SLM/A faction on the African Union ceasefire commission.
  • [DRC] Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Emergency Relief Coordinator among internally displaced persons in the Kankonona camp for the Internally Displaced awaiting transport to their villages as Mai-Mai militia prepares demobi
    Jan Egeland, the visiting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator among displaced persons in Kolomani Camp, Katanga Province, on Wednesday.
  • [Lebanon] The Mines Advisory Group detonates 47 cluster bombs in Al-Malkiyye, south Lebanon. [Date picture taken: 09/01/2006]
    The three men that were injured were in southern Lebanon to find and detonate unexploded cluster bombs, as above.
  • [Gaza] A crowd of Palestinians throw stones at Palestinian security forces preventing them from passing the border point at Raffah, between Egypt and Gaza Strip, 17 September 2005. Gaza has no sea port and Israel has not agreed to allow its international
    Palestinians are living under deteriorating conditions in Gaza. Here they battle to get access to the Rafah border crossing.
  • [Gaza] Israeli soldiers close the Kisufim checkpoint at the entrance to the Jewish settelment in the Gaza Strip, 15 August 2005. Marking the first time that Israel has agreed to dismantle settlements built on Palestinian land seized in the Six-Day War in
  • [Johannesburg]  Petronella Makhanya is caring for two of her own grandchildren as well as two children left behind when another granny died last year. [Date picture taken: 09/08/2006]
  • [Lebanon] Italian divers from UNIFIL arrive to the shore of Tyre. [Date picture taken: 09/06/2006]
  • [Lebanon] UN helicopter transporting Italian troups frpm the sea to the lebanese shore in tyre. [Date picture taken: 09/06/2006]
  • [Lebanon] (right to left) Italian commander, UNIFIL commander General Alain Pelligrini and vice commander J.P. Nehra. [Date picture taken: 09/06/2006]
  • [DRC] Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Emergency Relief Coordinator meets three Mai-Mai militia leaders who have disarmed voluntary and are awaiting government help to return to their civilian occupations, Kankonona village i
  • [Nepal] Mother and child - survivors of the floods. [Date picture taken: 09/06/2006]
    Mother and child - survivors of the floods
  • [Gaza] Palestinians crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after the re opening of Rafah Border 28 November 2005. Palestinians were able to leave fenced-in Gaza without having to submit to Israeli security checks.
    The Rafah border has been open for only 14 days since 25 June.
  • [Kenya] Ibrahima Fall, the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region. [Date picture taken: 09/05/2006]
    Ibrahima Fall, the Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region. He said on Tuesday lasting solutions were needed for the humanitarian problems of gender-based violence, refugees and internally displaced persons.
  • [Kenya] Delegates from the great lakes at a regional meeting on the review and validation of draft model legislation. [Date picture taken: 09/05/2006]
    Delegates at the conference in Nairobi, Kenya
  • [Kenya] Jeanine Cooper, OCHA regional support Office Humanitarian Affairs Officer.  [Date picture taken: 09/05/2006]
  • [Kenya] Ibrahima Fall, the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, seated in the middle on the first row, with delegates during a regional meeting on the review and validation of draft model legislation.
  • [oPt] A map illustrating the status of access points in the Gaza Strip as of June 2006. [Date picture taken: 06/15/2006]
  • [Zambia] Maria at work. [Date picture taken: 02/24/2005]
    Five year-old Maria works in a quarry on the outskirts of the Zambian capital
  • [Lebanon] Hassan Awwada (centre) helped his relatives Layla Awwada and her father stay at his brother's family home. [Date picture taken: 09/05/2006]
    Hassan Awwada (centre) helped his relatives, Layla Awwada and her father, stay at his brother's family home.
  • [DRC] Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Emergency Relief Coordinator behind internally displaced persons in the Kankonona camp for the Internally Displaced awaiting transport to their villages as Mai-Mai militia prepares demob
    Jan Egeland with internally displaced persons in Kankonona Camp in Katanga
  • [Kenya] Annete Mataya, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She sells vitenge [fabric] in Nairobi, Kenya. [Date picture taken: 09/01/2006]
    Nairobi textile dealer Annete Mataya, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hopes to return to her homeland when the economy improves.
  • [Congo] Dolisie teaching hospital, Niari province. [Date picture taken: August 2006]
    Dolisie's teaching hospital - vandalised and pillaged during the war
  • Men evacuate belongings, family and livestock from Bambiko village, near Lake Tana, Ethiopia, One September 2006. At least 630 people have died from the floods. According to UNICEF, families are facing multiple displacements as the river levels rise due t
    Men evacuate belongings, family and livestock from Bambiko village, near Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  • [Nigeria] Martins Oke, lives and fishes in Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria. Here making tools to mend his fishing nets, Oke makes a living as a fisherman in the filthy waters of the Lagos Lagoon. [Date picture taken: 08/23/200
    Children are at risk of being trafficking from Nigeria overland to Niger, Libya and then to Europe

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