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Sinnaieah Nageshwari, along with her granddaughter, holds a portrait of her son. He was 16 years old when he disappeared in 2009 while going to fetch water. “We have no trust with the OMP or the Sri Lankan government,” she said.
Anthony Sahayam, a member of a local association for families of the disappeared, holds records detailing the disappearances of three relatives who disappeared in 2007 and 2008.
Rajaduraie Subalaxmi holds a picture of her son, who disappeared in 2007 when he was 16. She believes he joined the Tamil Tigers and surrendered himself after the military declared victory.
Anthony Sahayam goes through family records of missing relatives. A member of a local association for families of the disappeared, Sahayam is searching for two cousins and his nephew, who were arrested in 2007 and 2008 and never seen again.
Alsény Touré
“When you start to talk about Ebola problems, people flee away from you." Hamidou Sylla, on his chicken farm.
Alsény Touré
People pray outside St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, which was one of several churches and hotels attacked in a series of suicide blasts in April.
Dozens of refugees and asylum seekers are staying at a police station in Negombo after they were evicted from their homes.
This boy makes 10 South Sudanese Pounds, or 8 cents, per person ferrying people through the swampland.
1. Sinane Sadiqui Siwale stands outside the house he has built with the help of his neighbours after his home was destroyed when Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Macomia in northern Mozambique.

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