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Thai law allows children to access schools regardless of their nationality. But in practice, many asylum seekers are reluctant to send their kids to school because they fear arrest. Lubna’s two sons spend most of their time hiding in their cramped home.
Lubna, a 35-year-old asylum seeker, fled religious persecution in Pakistan, but faces arrest and uncertainty in Thailand. Refugees and asylum seekers are often swept up in immigration police raids.
Zaitsev Alexander, aged 31, Natalia Yefimava, aged 54, her adopted daughter Dariya Boytsova , aged 16 and her neighbour Victoria Marinenko, aged 49, at the IDP centre in Kharkiv, east Ukraine.
A new administration centre where IDPs can register and complete all their paperwork in one place, in Izyum, east Ukraine.
IDP Irina Slyucareva, 51, from Horlivka, Donetsk, lives in a village close to Izyum, east Ukraine.
Many families have elderly or disabled members living with them at the IDP centre in Kharkiv, east Ukraine.
Svetlana Kozlova, aged 40, works as a seamstress from her container home at the IDP centre in Kharkiv, east Ukraine.
Some 130 children are growing up at the IDP centre in Kharkiv, east Ukraine, five years into the conflict.
Stagnant pools of water in Basra's al-Abbas district.
Graffiti at a canal in Basra's Old City reads: "Don't throw rubbish on the bridge or in the river"
A nurse disinfects protective equipment.
Nurse Bonheur Ndoko practises putting on and taking off PPE.
Jacob Lape’s eight children and 12 grandchildren all sleep in the same three-bedroom house in Mongoumba.
Fabiola Tembukade returned to Mongoumba from Bétou in April 2018.
A family is reunited as the convoy arrives in Bangui. Of the 364 people repatriated on the convoy, 79 returned to capital.
Returnees prepare to sleep in Mongoumba transit centre – their first night in CAR after years in exile.
At Mongoumba transit centre, UNHCR staff verify the documents of Halima Adam, a 30-year-old mother of five.
13-year-old Zeinaba Daha is heading back to CAR’s capital, Bangui, with her mother and five siblings.
At a transit center in Mongoumba, returnees are offered health checks, a yellow fever vaccination, food to last three months, and a cash distribution worth $76 per child, $152 per adult, and $84 per family.
Saturnin Mbenga (left) and his family, sing, laugh and greet people as they travel from Bétou to Mongoumba, a town in southwestern CAR close to the Congo-Brazzaville border.
After six years living in a refugee camp in Congo-Brazzaville, 32-year-old Mermoz Mongo (wearing a green vest) is waiting to be transported back to his village in CAR.

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