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  • A map showing Tunisia and the Italian island of Lampedusa.
  • Map showing desert expanse at the border between Jordan, Syria, and Iraq where the Rukban refugee camp lies.
  • Children play football in Rukban
    Children play football in Rukban, a camp of some 10,000 people on the Syria-Jordan border, 7 September 2020.
  • Black-and-white photo display at the Afghanistan Center for Memory and Dialogue in Kabul
    Black-and-white photos show members of one extended family in this display at the Afghanistan Center for Memory and Dialogue in Kabul. A father, uncle, and sister were killed during different eras of the country’s war.
  • Objects belonging to Mohammed Sadiq, a tailor, and his niece, Saima
    Objects belonging to Mohammed Sadiq, a tailor, and his niece, Saima. Both were killed during an April 2015 attack in Kabul.
  • Kazim Ehsan, programme manager at the Afghanistan Centre for Memory and Dialogue
    Kazim Ehsan, programme manager at the Afghanistan Centre for Memory and Dialogue, tells the story of the football-playing Sharif brothers. The museum preserves stories of the conflict using oral history and everyday objects.
  • Eight brothers in the same family were members of a well-known football club that once played in Kabul’s Ghazi stadium
    Eight brothers in the same family were members of a well-known football club that once played in Kabul’s Ghazi stadium. Six brothers would disappear in notorious secret prisons in the late 1970s. The Taliban later used Ghazi stadium to hold public executi
  • A pyramid of charred clothing and items belonging to brothers Asadullah and Hikmatullah Shafayee
    A pyramid of charred clothing and items belonging to brothers Asadullah and Hikmatullah Shafayee. They were among dozens killed in a July 2016 attack claimed by a faction of so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan.
  • The charfiya fishing technique
    The charfiya fishing technique – a traditional method of catching fish by trapping them in a palm house constructed underwater – is unique to Kerkennah. But it has become a lot harder to earn a living from fishing around the archipelago.
  • A large fishing boat in Kerkennah
    A large fishing boat in Kerkennah, where young Tunisian fishermen – facing declining yields and the economic fallout of COVID-19 – are choosing to pilot boats of migrants to Italy, and often to migrate themselves.
  • Hajj Sessi, a 39-year-old fisherman
    Hajj Sessi, a 39-year-old fisherman, checking his charfiya in the shallow waters around Kerkennah.
  • Newly installed containers in Torretta Antonacci
    After a fire at Torretta Antonacci in December 2019, the local government installed more than 100 containers as temporary housing and aid groups stepped up their assistance in the settlement.
  • Torretta Antonacci residents demonstrate at the Cathedral of Foggia
    Torretta Antonacci residents demonstrate at the Cathedral of Foggia in October 2017, soon after the settlement's bulldozing.
  • Mothers whose sons were killed by Kenyan police gather in front of Kenya’s parliament
    Mothers whose sons were killed by Kenyan police gather in front of Kenya’s parliament in Nairobi wearing masks with the victims’ names as a form of protest, on 9 June, 2020.
  • Wanjira Wanjiru, 25
    Wanjira Wanjiru, 25, is one of the founders of the women's movement against police brutality.
  • Wanjira Wanjiru, 25
    Wanjira Wanjiru, 25, is one of the founders of the women's movement against police brutality.
  • Wanjira Wanjiru discusses the role of women in the anti-police brutality movement
    Wanjira Wanjiru discusses the role of women in the anti-police brutality movement during a meeting at Mathare Social Justice Center in Nairobi in July 2020.
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  • Boats rest on the sand on the Mahrès seafront
    With the tide out, boats rest on the sand on the Mahrès seafront. Thanks to Tunisia's struggling economy, more than a third of the town has emigrated.
  • Ali, 33, in Zarzis
    After being deported from Italy in 2016, Ali, a 33-year-old decorator and fisherman, was intercepted during his second attempt to reach Europe in 2019 by the Tunisian Coast Guard and brought back to Tunisia.
  • Pietro Tangoa, a traditional Shipibo healer in the Indigenous community of Nueva Betania, conducts a “post-COVID” ritual
    Pietro Tangoa, a traditional Shipibo healer in the Indigenous community of Nueva Betania, some two hours by boat from Pucallpa, conducts a “post-COVID” ritual.

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