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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 in October 2017, soon after the settlement's bulldozing.
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, is one of the founders of the women's movement against police brutality.
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 during a meeting at Mathare Social Justice Center in Nairobi in July 2020.
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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.
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, some two hours by boat from Pucallpa, conducts a “post-COVID” ritual.
Carmen Bardalez, 54, checks on a patient, Mateo Barbaran, 56.
A member of the Comando Matico, a volunteer group of Indigenous Shipibo health workers, gives Edelmira Amasifuen, 35, a massage to assist her breathing at their clinic in San Francisco, a town near the eastern city of Pucallpa.
One of Estrella’s sons covers his father’s casket with a typical Kakataibo cloth.
Estrella’s family members grieving his death at his burial in Yamino. They spoke of the pain they felt at being unable to approach the casket during the wake due to the COVID-19 sanitary measures.
A casket carrying Estrella, the Kakataibo leader, is brought back to his village, Yamino, some 200 kilometres southwest of Pucallpa, for burial.
Tony Augustín, a 22-year-old Shipibo, sought help from the Comando Matico after his health deteriorated following a positive test for COVID-19.
Members of the Comando Matico, a group of young volunteers from the Shipibo Indigenous community who care for COVID-19 patients, take an oxygen tank to a plant in Pucallpa to be filled.
Emilio Estrella's son holds a photo up to Estrella's ear to listen to a chant in his native language at the Hospital Amazónico in Pucallpa. Estrella, who was the Kakataibo community leader, died moments later. He was thought to be 96 years old.
Residents from communities along the Amazon River’s many tributaries arrive in Pucallpa’s port on motorised canoes or on old river boats.
An aerial image of a cemetery in Pucallpa, one of Peru’s worst-hit areas for COVID-19.

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