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  • Children play on top of Mount Sinjar as the sun sets
    A game of football on top of the mountain, as the battle for Sinjar City rages below
  • A Yadizi man on top of Mount Sinjar with a rifle slung on his shoulder
    Concerned about the threat of an IS attack, most men on the mountain own a gun
  • Yazidi children in front of a small garden on top of Mount Sinjar
    Some families have small patches for growing crops like tomatoes and onions
  • A Yazidi man guards a water well on top of Mount Sinjar
    Sulaiman Aiso receives a salary for guarding the PKK-built water well
  • A Yazidi woman prepares bread dough on top of Mount Sinjar
    Donated flourmills mean locals can produce their own bread during harvest season
  • A Kurdish man on top of Mount Sinjar
    Bapir Hassan Saed has not found a job since moving to the mountain and struggles to provide for his family
  • Kurdish fighter has a cigarette as battle for Sinjar city rages below
  • Migrants and refugees wait outside Moria reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos. A new fingerprinting and screening system has delayed registrations.
  • A game of football on top of the mountain, as the battle for Sinjar City rages below
  • Leer county Unity State has been one of the regions in South Sudan hardest hit since conflict in South Sudan broke out again in December 2013.
  • A Kurdish fighter prepares to descend Mount Sinjar to Sinjar City (in the background) where the battle against IS is ongoing.
    A Kurdish fighter prepares to descend Mount Sinjar into the battle raging below
  • Many residents from Badia East, the largest slum in Lagos, are still sleeping out in the open, after their homes were demolished on 18 September.
  • As part of the World Humanitarian Summit consultations, a proposal put forward by a new southern NGO network calls for a "more equitable and dignified humanitarian system" that enables southern NGOs to play a bigger role in response, access funding, and b
    A proposal by southern NGOs for what they called a more equitable and dignified humanitarian system circulated at the Geneva meeting
  • Degan Ali, Executive Director of Adeso
    Degan Ali, Executive Director of Adeso
  • With nowhere to go, many people still remain in Lagos' Badia East amidst the ruins of their demolished houses. (October 2015)
  • Ngadimin in his field in Ketung Miri village in Indonesia's Special Region of Yogyakarta in October 2015. Normally the field would be flooded, but his rice harvest failed due to drought so he planted tobacco and chilis.
  • Thiaroye, Senegal (August, 2015) - Baye Aly Diop, President of the Association for Repatriated Illegal Immigrants, looks out at the ocean in Thiaroye, Senegal. More than nine years ago, his son took a boat bound for Europe. Diop has not heard from him sin
  • Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Thiaroye, Senegal (August, 2015) - Baye Aly Diop, President of the Association for Repatriated Illegal Immigrants, looks at the book that documents the men from his town that went missing in 2006 after taking a boat to Europe..
  • Thiaroye, Senegal (August, 2015) - Fishermen in their boats off the coast of Thiaroye, Senegal.
  • A boy, who is by himself, tries to sleep on a piece of cardboard next to the fence outside a reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos
  • The former Jean-Quarré hotel school, in the 19th arrondisement of Paris has been occupied by asylum seekers since late July.
  • Relief effort for Syrian refugees in Kilis, southern Turkey.
  • Bimala Thami sits with community health worker  Gauri Thami in October 2015 in the temporary shelter she lives in with her infant in Nepal's Dolakha district after her house was destroyed by a earthquake on 25 April 2015
    Bimala Thami sits with community health worker Gauri Thami last week in the temporary shelter she lives in with her infant in Dolakha district
  • Two men survey construction in October 2015 in Charikot town in Nepal's Dolakha district, which was at the epicentre of the earthquake on 25 April 2015
    Two men survey construction last week in Charikot town in Nepal's Dolakha district, which was at the epicentre of the earthquake on 25 April 2015
  • Displaced people living in a temporary camp in October 2015 in Nepal's Dolakha district, which was at the epicentre of an earthquake on 25 April 2015
    Displaced people living in a temporary camp last week in Dolakha district
  • Staff inspect the Military Hospital in Sana'a after it was hit by an airstrike by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
  • Authorities in Burkina Faso pay their respects to the 14 civilians who were killed by security forces during the days of violence following the 16 September coup.
  • Soldiers from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an ethnic armed group, walk near Pahlaing village in Myanar's Shan State in September 2015
  • Ahmad Al Rousan is a cultural mediator for an MSF project in Rome providing psychological first aid to asylum seekers
  • Ahmad Al Rousan works as a cultural mediator for an MSF project providing psychological first aid to migrants in Rome
  • Salima Karroum is a cultural mediator with NGO, Emergency in Italy. She works with Emergency's teams receiving migrants and refugees at Sicilian ports.

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