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  • This photo shows aid packages in the forefront of the image. In the background people line up to enter a building.
    In remote areas of Maidan Wardak province, like Behsud district, it can take village residents more than three hours to reach services and aid in urban centres.
  • Volunteers say that the vast majority of households they interact with in Behsud district lack male breadwinners to provide for families that average seven people for household. Alt text: This photo is a medium shot taken in the interior of a building. On the left we see two volunteers wearing surgical gloves and masks. They are sitting next to a turquoise fold-out table. A woman stands next to the table. She wears a dark blue head covering and a piece of paper in her hands.
    Volunteers say the vast majority of households they interact with in Behsud district lack male breadwinners to provide for families of seven people on average.
  • This is a portrait of Fathia Ahmed Abu Jalhoum. She is pictured smiling without showing teeth at the camera. She wears a black head covering.
  • This is a portrait of Ahmed Montaser Suleiman Abu Nahia. He is pictured wearing a grey puffer jacket with his arms crossed over his stomach. Behind him is a pick-up truck.
  • This is a portrait of Dr. Amira Salem Muslim Qadeeh. She is pictured in the interior of a hospital. She wears a lab coat, a stethoscope is around her neck and she wears a beige headscarf. She smiles at the camera.
  • This is a portrait of Doaa Qita. She is pictured wearing a yellow sweater with Mickey Mouse at the center. She wears a beige headscarf over a black head covering. In he background we see a settlement and clothes hanging from a clothing line.
  • Pictured is a long shot where people are seen prayiing as the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes and fire wrapped in blue tarps are buried in a mass grave, after they were transported from Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for burial, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 22, 2023.
    The bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza are buried in a mass grave in the southern city of Khan Younis on 22 November 2023.
  • A group of people are sitting under a large tent. All hold in their hands photos of their missing loved ones.
    The sit-in outside the National Press Club in Islamabad.
  • Two women out of a large group are pictured sitting under a large tent holding images of their loved ones.
    Pakistan's intelligence services are accused of "disappearing" thousands of Baloch men over the last 20 years. Relatives are demanding their loved ones are released or presented to the courts if they are accused of committing a crime.
  • This is a photo of a Syrian settlement of migrants in Lebanon. We see some clothes hanging on a drying line and some tarps and makeshift homes in the background.
    Lebanon has no formal camps for Syrian refugees, and many of the settlements lack basic infrastructure.
  • This is a medium shot showing a group of Palestinians flock to the truck carrying drinkable water as they face the threat of hunger and thirst in Rafah, Gaza on December 11, 2023. At the centre we see the back of a young person with their hands raised.
    Palestinians rush to a truck carrying drinkable water in Rafah, southern Gaza, on 11 December 2023.
  • Pictured is a cellphone held by Mohammad where he is showing a picture he took of his back after he was released from jail. You can see there are injuries.
    Mohammed shows a picture taken of his wounds after he was released from prison in Syria.
  • This is a picture taken at night showing Ali and his friend heating themselves next to a campfire. They both wear face coverings. Light from the fire illuminates their faces.
    Ali and a friend try to stay warm by a fire before they spend the night outside, in an attempt to evade raids by the Lebanese army.
  • Laila is pictured having a coffee and a cigarette inside her tent as she sits cross-legged on the floor.
    Laila’s oldest son has taken shelter far from the family’s tent; he fears deportation and conscription into the Syrian army.
  • This is a header image for the Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast. The background is orange with a grainy texture. On the bottom right, collage-style, black and white cut-outs of portraits of the two guests: Diane Essex-Lettieri and Ignacio Packer.
  • Racine rides his scooter through the narrow alleys of a souk in Marrakech to go to work in the riad.
    Racine Ba drives his scooter through a souk in Marrakech. He arrived from Senegal in 2011, and is now settled in Morocco with a family, and a job he enjoys.
  • A group of worshippers from the Sufi Islamic brotherhood Mouridiyya are gathered in the Fat Hatoul Jhaffar dahira in Marrakech.
    Members of the Senegalese Islamic Mouride brotherhood gather for prayer in Fat Hatoul Jhaffar, Marrakech.
  • Ousmane Djom stands in one of the many greenhouses surrounding the countryside of Ait Amira, a rural municipality south of Agadir that hosts a large community of sub-Saharans workers.
    Ousmane works in a greenhouse in Ait Amira. West African labour is crucial to the region’s export-driven fruit and vegetable production.
  •  A young Senegalese street seller walks among stands and tourists in the famous Jemaa el-Fnaa Square in Marrakech, Morocco.
    A young Senegalese street seller walks among stands and tourists in the famous Jemaa el-Fnaa Square in Marrakech, Morocco.
  • A protestor holds a placard that reads: Rwanda Policy Must be Stopped. He is standing outside the Supreme Court in London where the UK Government's Rwanda asylum policy was judged to be unlawful.
    A protester holds a placard outside the Supreme Court in London on 15 November 2023, when the British government's broader Rwanda asylum policy was judged to be unlawful.
  • This is a medium shot of a migrant woman as she carries a baby. Behind her you can see groups of migrants waiting.
    A woman carrying her young girl at a reception centre for migrants who have crossed from Colombia into Panamá, on 23 September 2023. More than half a million people made the dangerous jungle journey through the Darién Gap last year.
  • This is a medium shot showing President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky sitting at a desk alongside many officials in Lithuania on Wednesday 10 of January 2024 during a visit to Vilnius, Lithuania.
    Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda meets President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Vilnius on 10 January, 2024.
  • Late 2023, Qatari Red Crescent set up tents in Al-Mawasi to shelter displaced families.
    Workers set up tents donated by the Qatari Red Crescent in al-Mawasi, an Israeli-designated “safe zone” in Gaza where humanitarian conditions are dire, according to forcibly displaced Palestinians who have taken refuge in the area.
  • Pictured is Nahed Barbakh as he stands on sand and points to the sheds he had set up for himself and his 13-member family in Al-Mawasi following months of multi-displacements.
    Nahed Barbakh, 58, points to the makeshift shelters he set up for his 13-member family in al-Mawasi after being displaced multiple times by Israel's military campaign.
  • Two young women are using a large wooden mortar and pestle outside some homes.
    Food is prepared at a displacement camp in Ouagadougou. More than two million Burkinabé have been uprooted by violence in recent years, and dozens of towns are under siege.
  • This is a medium shot portrait of Issiaka Oumaro, 43, from Gorom-Gorom. He is wearing a bright green and black button down shirt.
  • This is a medium shot of Tall Mohamed Fadel and Abdoul Karim. They are walking and talking to each other.
  • This is a medium shot of Tall Mohamed Fadel, 22, from Yakuta. He is sitting on the threshold of a door and looks away form the camera.
  • A group of people are are sitting in line facing away from the camera.
  • This is a medium shot of a boy smiling as he runs in a corridor in between to groups of houses.
  • This is a medium shot of Abdoul Karim, 16, from Markoye. He is pictured on the right side of the image. Some bikes and a motorcycle are parked under the shade of the wall. Karim is leaned on one of them and looking at the camera.
  • Pictured in a medium shot are five people who have been displaced go about their daily life at an informal settlement in Ouagadougou’s Kalgondin neighbourhood, which is adjacent to the city’s main airport. On the left is a woman wearing blue garments and putting on a blue veil. At the center a man is crouched and looking at the camera. Behind him two women tug playfully at a yellow jerry can. The woman on the left of the jerry can is holding a baby in her arms.
    Displaced people go about their daily life at an informal settlement in Ouagadougou’s Kalgondin neighbourhood, which is adjacent to the city’s main airport.

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