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  • [Lebanon] Refugees returning to their damaged home in Khiam. [Date picture taken: 08/20/2006]
  • [Uganda] School boys rehearse for a musical performance in an internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp in Alero District in northern Uganda, August 2006. With calm returning to most parts of northern Uganda, children are now able to experience a normali
    With calm returning to parts of northern Uganda, children have returned to school
  • [Uganda] A woman prepares food to be sold at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Many of the approximately two million Ugandan IDPs depend on food aid.
    IDPs at a decongestion camp in Gulu District, northern Uganda
  • [Uganda] A young boy beams with happiness after a meal at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Almost half of the approximately two million IDPs in Uganda are children.
    A young boy beams with happiness after a meal at Cet Kana camp for people displaced by the war in northern Uganda.
  • [Uganda] A woman constructs a new home for her family in an internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp in Alero District in northern Uganda, August 2006. With 2 million civilians displaced by the 20 years of civil war, many of them are now eager to begin
    Many new homes are far from healthcare providers
  • [Senegal] Mangoes infested with the fly larvae rot on the ground in Senegal's Casamance region, destroying a source of income for the region's farmers. [Date picture taken: 08/17/2006]
    Mangoes infested with whitefly larvae rot on the ground in Senegal's Casamance region, destroying a source of income for the region's farmers.
  • [Uganda] Two girls pose with their pet monkey at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Almost half of the approximately two million IDPs in Uganda are children.
    Two girls with David Gough
  • [Uganda] Fifty-year-old Silvia Alak tells her story at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Silvia and her seven children survived the ravages of the Lord’s Resistance Arm
  • [Uganda] A woman prepares a meal at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. The 20 years of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Uganda People’s Defence Forc
    A camp housing people displaced by the LRA war in Gulu District, northern Uganda.
  • [Uganda] Ida Akongo poses for the camera with reminiscence of tragedy marked on her face, in front of a mural at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Ida was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army when s
    Ida Akongo was abducted by the LRA when she was 12 years old
  • [Uganda] Two former abducted girls sit on a bed at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. Girls as young as ten years old have been regularly abducted from villages and given as wives to senior Lord’s Resi
    Two former abducted girls sit on a bed at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006.
  • [Uganda] A group of children stares down at their own distorted reflection in a puddle of water at Cet Kana, a decongestion camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. In this region, drought has limited al
    A group of children stare down at their reflections in a puddle of water at Cet Kana, an IDP camp in Gulu District, northern Uganda
  • [Uganda] Night commuters prepare to face the darkness of a rainy night, at the Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) centre in Lacor Hospital in Gulu District in northern Uganda, August 2006. In fear of abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), tens of th
    Night commuters prepare to face the darkness of a rainy night, at the MSF centre in Lacor Hospital, Gulu District in northern Uganda
  • [Uganda] The daughter of a former abducted girl stands in front of a mural at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu District, northern Uganda, August 2006. With calm returning to most parts of northern Uganda, children are now able to experience
    The daughter of a former abducted girl stands in front of a mural, Gulu, northern Uganda
  • Opium field. Poppy seed capsules after being scratched; now they release the raw opium, Afghanistan
    Opium field. Poppy seed capsules after being scratched; now they release the raw opium, Afghanistan
  • [Afghanistan] Opium harvest in a poppy field in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, 2003. The cultivation of opium has largely increased during the last decade: according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in 2004 poppies were grown on 1,300 km², abo
  • [Iraq] Teacher Samira Kubaissy has been threatened three times since the beginning of the year. [Date picture taken: 08/22/2006]
    Teacher Samira Kubaissy has been threatened three times in 2006 from her students.
  • [Sierra Leone] Paramount Chief, P.C. Sheku Amadu Tejan Fasuluku. [2005]
    Paramount Chief P.C. Sheku Amadu Tejan Fasuluku with family members
  • [Nepal] Families of victims who disappeared at the hands of the state have arrived from their villages to the capital to pressurise the government to reveal the whereabouts of their relatives. [Date picture taken: 08/25/2006]
    Families of those who disappeared at the hands of the state have arrived to the capital to press the government to reveal the whereabouts of their relatives
  • [Somalia] Aerial view of Mogadishu' port.
    Mogadishu has been fought over often and is again insecure
  • [Nepal] Debi Sunwar has been fighting a legal battle for the last two years to find justice against the extrajudicial killing of her 15-year old daughter, Maina, who was detained illegally and tortured severely by Nepal Army officers. [Date picture taken
  • [Guinea] Detainees in Guinea display scars they say they received through torture by police. [Date picture taken: August 2006]
    Young people are particularly vulnerable to brutal interrogation and routine abuses while in detention.
  • [Guinea] Detainees in Guinea display scars they say they received through torture by police. [Date picture taken: August 2006]
    Torturle kept the president in power
  • [Nepal] A large number of poor Nepalese women from the remote villages migrate to the Gulf countries to work as domestic maids despite the ban by the Nepal goverment on Nepalese women to seek foreign employment in the unorganised sector. [Date picture tak
  • [Lebanon] Estruction of homes has left hundreds of thousands displaced. [Date picture taken: 08/22/2006]
  • Women returning to an internally displaced persons camp in Darfur after collecting firewood, Sudan, 17 August 2006. Many women in Darfur are illiterate; there are few opportunities for girls’ education in rural villages because they are responsible for
  • People register to appear before a mobile court in Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire, 17 August 2006. The people hoped to receive documents proving Ivorian citizenship ahead of elections.
    People register to appear before a mobile court in Bouake, Côte d'Ivoire
  • [Lebanon] Following the death of her sister and a period in exile from her town, Maryam Farhat found home destroyed upon her return. [Date picture taken: 08/22/2006]
    Maryam Farhat returned to her home at the end of the conflict to find it destroyed.
  • [Senegal] Health workers sort through soil extracted from a rodent hole searching for ticks. [Date picture taken: 08/17/2006]
  • [Senegal] Health workers sort through soil extracted from a rodent hole searching for ticks. [Date picture taken: 08/17/2006]
    Tiques extraites des terriers de rongeurs
  • [Sierra Leone] Alluvial diggers work in diamond pits in Sierra Leone. [Date picture taken: 08/05/2006]
    Diggers working in diamond pits in eastern Sierra Leone
  • [Jordan] Mohammad Abu Fares, Islamist member of Jordan's parliament, was sentenced to two years in prison for "fuelling national discord”. [Date picture taken: 08/7/2006]
    Mohammad Abu Fares, Islamist member of Jordan's parliament, was sentenced to two years in prison for

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