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  • [Ghana-Accra] Fefe Dari was jailed for five years for performing female genital excision. [Date picture taken: 09/01/2006]
    Fefe Dari was jailed for five years for performing female genital excision.
  • [Nigeria] Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria. Some 15,00 people live here in the most basic conditions imaginable. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
    Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria
  • [Sudan] Fighting has recently flared in towns around Al Fashir.
  • [Kenya] Theatre is a good way to pass on the AIDS message to low-literacy communities: beach community on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria. [Date picture taken: 08/31/2006]
    Theatre on the shores of Lake Victoria - a good way to pass on the AIDS message to low-literacy communities
  • [Nepal] A group of villagers displaced by the flood organise a road blockade in an attempt to draw attention to their need for medical and food relief. [Date picture taken: 09/05/2006]
    A group of villagers displaced by the flood organise a road blockade in an attempt to draw attention to their need for medical and food relief
  • [Sudan] Woman in displaced camp in Darfur.
    Women in a camp for internally displaced people in Darfur. Nearly 4.2 million people are in need of aid, the UN warns
  • [Nigeria] Children in Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria. Some 15,00 people live here in the most basic conditions imaginable. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
    Ongoing corruption robs people of decent living conditions, says Human Rights Watch (file photo)
  • [Sudan] Tanks lined up in northern Darfur. [Date picture taken: 09/03/2006]
    Tanks des forces africaines de maintien de la paix au Darfour. L'attaque du 29 septembre est la plus grave subie par les troupes déployées dans la région
  • [Kenya] Many of the St Claire children were orphaned by the pandemic. [Date picture taken: September 2006]
    Orfanato St. Caire: muitas crianças perderam os pais por causa da Sida.
  • A page from "Are Your Rights Respected?", a comic book for deaf people.
    A page from the new comic book
  • [Nepal] Thousands of flood victims in the most remote villages of west Nepal are still waiting for the food relief. Aid agencies have gradually started to mobilise their resources to provide food and medical aid following heavy pressure from the victims o
    The decade-long armed conflict has adversely affected development work in Nepal, one of world's poorest countries, where 31 percent of the country's population lives below the poverty line
  • [OPT/Israel] The closure of a key commercial border crossing at Karni is strangling relief supplies into Gaza.
    The closure of a key commercial border crossing at Karni is strangling supplies into Gaza
  • [Sudan] Kutum, Mellit, Um Sidir, Al Fasher. [Date picture taken: September 2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. With an acute shortage of food supplies, local communities from urban areas have taken to raise funds to help the villagers. Here young students provide rice, sugar, salt and lentils, as wel
  • Two of the six destroyed transformers at Gaza power station after an Israeli military strike, Gaza, Palestine, 28 June 2006. The air strike destroyed all six transformers of the only domestic power supply plant in the Gaza Strip, which provided 43 percen
  • A girl in Beit Lahiya sits by a lantern during one of the daily power cuts in Gaza, 09 March 2006. Gazans receive on average between six and eight hours of electricity per day after the Israeli military bombed the city’s only power station on 28 June 20
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Due to hunger, many families are digging out the wheat stocks from the wet ground and grinding the mud-filled wheat for food. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Marra Goriya and her daughters live under a plastic roof after their house was completely destroyed by the flood. Housing is a major problem for thousands of flood victims. [Date picture tak
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Scores of children have become sick due to water-borne diseases and unhygienic conditions as a result of the floods. Many suffer from eye-borne diseases, fever, diarrhea, cholera and scabie
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Women and children wait a whole day for their male relatives to come back with food. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
    Water is a precious commodity in Nepal and many people share each tap. Nepalese women, often with their young children, may spend hours fetching water each day
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Many villagers are running out of food since the supplies from the government and aid agencies hardly last a few days. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Both children and their parents walk for hours to get the food supplied by the Nepal Red Cross Society and the few aid agencies on the ground. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Desperate for food, thousands of people cross the river everyday to get their food supplies from relief organisations. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. A handful of boats in Banke district are the only means of transportation for the villagers. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. As a result of heavy flooding and landslides, most of the roads to remote areas have been destroyed. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
    In 2006 floods affected over 50,000 people, including tens of thousands who were made homeless
  • [Nepal] Banke district, western Nepal, 600 km west of Kathmandu. Heavy monsoon rains have severely affected western Nepal, killing at least 50 people and destroying food stocks for tens of thousands of families. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]
  • [Lebanon] Cluster bomblets remain scattered through farmland in the south, rendering it unusable till cleared. [Date picture taken: 09/03/2006]
    Cluster bombs remain scattered throughout farmland in the south, rendering it unusable until cleared
  • [Niger] Child in Tamtala village, SW Niger. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
  • [Niger] Typical Nigerien woman, Tamtala village, SW Niger. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
  • [Niger] Nigeriens regularly strike over the cost of basics, like mobile phone calls. Niamey. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
    Nigeriens regularly strike over the cost of basics, like mobile phone calls
  • [Niger] 85 percent of Nigeriens make a living off the land. [Date picture taken: 08/23/2006]
    This child should be in school but instead is helping with domestic tasks
  • [occ. Palestinian terr.] Students of Ramallah Secondary School on the first day of the open strike. [Date picture taken: 09/02/2006]

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