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  • Pacifique Iradukunda’s stands in an open field in Bulengo displacement camp. His family have lived in the settlement since escaping an M23 offensive on the village of Kitchanga.
  • 25-year-old Alice Maombi and other residents of the camp fill up water at Bulengo displacement camp near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. She has three children but is struggling to make ends meet since arriving in the camp earlier this year.
  • 25-year-old Alice Maombi carries a jerrycan in Bulengo displacement camp near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. She described living conditions at the settlement as harsh.
  • Christiane Mukankusi Bashoboye looks after her two children at Bulengo displacement camp near the eastern Congolese city of Goma. She recently escaped an offensive by the M23 armed group.
  • A teacher in a small classroom is writing on a whiteboard as she gives a lecture to trainee midwives in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, on 2 March 2023, part of an initiative spearheaded by the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) in partnership with a local NGO.
    A teacher gives a lecture to trainee midwives in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, on 2 March 2023, part of an initiative spearheaded by the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) in partnership with a local NGO.
  • Pictured is the emblem of the WHO (World Health Organization) placed outside their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Aerial view of a part of the city of Jenderes in the countryside of Aleppo, northwestern Syria. We see a crane at the bottom center of the picture among piles of rubble. The sky is yellow and clear.
    Earthquake survivors in the city of Jindires, in northwest Syria, search between the ruins of their destroyed homes, on 27 February 2023.
  • The picture shows a detroyed residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro that was hit by a missile strike on 14 January 2023, killing 46 people.
    Returning to civilian areas some distance from the front lines can still be dangerous. This residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro was hit by a missile strike on 14 January 2023, killing 46 people.
  • Liudmyla Daniuk, 60, pictured in her room her room in a seminary in Lviv, Ukraine in January 2023, where she is living after returning from Slovakia. She's sitting at the edge of the bed with her hands on her lap. To her left side is a walker.
    Liudmyla Daniuk, 60, sits on the bunk bed in her room in the Lviv seminary where she has been living since returning from Slovakia.
  • Congolese soldiers patrol against the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group in North Kivu province, in 2013. Also pictured, two women carrying supplies on their backs.
    Congolese soldiers patrol against the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group in North Kivu province, in 2013. The armed group has killed thousands of civilians over the past decade.
  • Graphic map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The provinces of Ituri and North Kivu are highlighted. The capital city of Kinshasa along with the cities of Beni and Butembo are pointed out.
  • Five residents of Port-au-Prince Haiti can be seen in the photo. Four are on a motorcycle and one walking closely behind it. All except the motorcycle driver has their hands up in the air. They are fleeing gang violence.
    Residents of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, raise their arms as they leave their homes due to gun battles between rival gangs in May 2022.
  • It's nighttime. Earthquake victims huddle around a makeshift fire in Antakya, southern Turkey, which was hit hard by the earthquakes, on 7 February 2023
    Earthquake victims huddle around a makeshift fire on 7 February in Antakya, a southern Turkish city hit hard by the earthquakes.
  • A Médecins Sans Frontières worker paddles a boat through floods in Pibor, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, in November 2019.
    A Médecins Sans Frontières worker paddles a boat through floods in Pibor, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, in November 2019.
  • It's nighttime. Rescue teams and heavy machinery are at work at the site of a collapsed building in Adana on 9 February.
    Rescue teams at work at the site of a collapsed building in the city of Adana, southern Türkiye, on 9 February.
  • It's night time. A rescue worker stands near wreckage in Antakya, Turkey.
    A rescue worker stands near wreckage in Antakya, Turkey on February 7th.
  • It's nighttime. Volunteer Barış Bilir stands near the site of a collapsed building in Adana.
    Barış Bilir was visiting his family in Adana when the earthquakes struck, and joined the relief effort.
  • Like many people with disabilities, the author and her parents — all of whom are blind — could not reach bomb shelters in Kharkiv. They finally evacuated despite continued bombardment, which included a missile attack that left rubble near the airport this
    The author and her parents — all of whom are blind — were not able to access bomb shelters in Kharkiv. They finally evacuated despite ongoing bombardment, including a missile attack that left this rubble near the airport.
  • A volunteer holds a boy as he has breakfast in a state shelter in Lviv, Ukraine for children in foster care on 25 March.
    A volunteer holds a boy as he has breakfast in a state shelter in Lviv, Ukraine for children in foster care on 25 March.
  • Crowds of refugees from Ukraine wait outside passport control at Przemyśl train station.
    Crowds of refugees from Ukraine wait outside passport control at Przemyśl train station.
  • Anna Kozhuhkarova, a jewellery designer, escaped Kyiv by train and waits by passport control to enter Poland.
    Anna Kozhuhkarova, a jewellery designer, escaped Kyiv by train and waits by passport control to enter Poland.
  • Igor Miliowski, a lorry driver from Kyiv working in Poland, waits for a train to return to Ukraine and fight.
    Igor Miliowski, a lorry driver from Kyiv working in Poland, waits for a train to return to Ukraine and fight.
  • People escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine reunite with others at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland. As of 27 February, at least 368,000 people had fled to neighbouring countries, according to the UN.
    People escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine reunite with others at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland. As of 28 February, at least 500,000 people had fled to neighbouring countries, according to the UN.
  • A damaged building hospital sign is seen in Irpin, northern Ukraine, on 1 April 2022, more than a month into Russia’s invasion of the country.
  • Pictured is a woman called Sahar, 17, an 11th grade secondary school student, walks past her former school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 20, 2021.
    Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the acting defence minister and son of Taliban founder Mullah Omar, didn't give much away when asked about the Islamic Emirate's increasing restrictions on the rights of women and girls.
  • A Palestinian man sleeps in the ruins of his house that was destroyed in Israeli air strikes, Gaza June 9, 2021.
  • Illustration picture shows people getting out of the plane at the arrival of a chartered Air Belgium airplane Airbus A340 carrying evacuated people from Afghanistan, at the military airport in Melsbroek, Belgium, Thursday 26 August 2021.
    Afghans arrive on an evacuation flight to Melsbroek military airport in Belgium in August 2021. Around 41,500 Afghans have been evacuated to the EU since the Taliban returned to power.
  • Migrants queuing in May 2021 for dinner at the Jesús El Buen Pastor shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, where they are forced to wait for months before being allowed to proceed northwards.
    Migrants queuing in May 2021 for dinner at the Jesús El Buen Pastor shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, where they are forced to wait for months before being allowed to proceed northwards.
  • A nurse displays the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.
    A nurse displays the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine supplied under the COVAX scheme at a hospital in Ethiopia, on 13 March, 2021.
  • Malian soldiers of the 614th Artillery Battery during a training session with the European Union Training Mission in central Mali, March 2021.
    Malian soldiers of the 614th Artillery Battery during a training session with the European Union Training Mission in central Mali, March 2021.
  • Demonstrators at Black Lives Matter demonstration in Geneva, 9 June 2020
    Demonstrators at Black Lives Matter demonstration in Geneva, 9 June 2020.
  • A meme posted on social media about the "nexus" policy in international aid.
    A meme posted on social media about the "nexus" policy in international aid.

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