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00027253 : RWANDA Kigali - Women washing the bones of victims of the 1994 genocide, which were amongst about 300 bodies in a newly discovered mass grave in Kigali. During the excavations attempts are made to identify the victims using teeth, jewellery and skull characteristics.
00027252 : RWANDA Kigali - During a commemorative gathering to mark the tenth anniversary of the genocide, a coffin with the remains of victims is lowered into a vault to be re-buried.
00027251 : RWANDA Nyamata - Survivors of the genocide take a last look at the remains of victims before they are finally re-buried. After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00027250 : MONTSERRAT - Soufriere Hills volcano eruption. Much of the southern part of the island, including the island's capital, Plymouth, was devastated.
00027249 : MONTSERRAT - Soufriere Hills volcano eruption. Much of the southern part of the island, including the island's capital, Plymouth, was devastated.
00027248 : MONTSERRAT - Soufriere Hills volcano eruption. Much of the southern part of the island, including the island's capital, Plymouth, was devastated.
00027247 : MONTSERRAT - Soufriere Hills volcano eruption. Much of the southern part of the island, including the island's capital, Plymouth, was devastated.
00027246 : MONTSERRAT Plymouth - A shamrock, the island's symbol, visible on the end of an old cannon, half buried in volcanic ash on the waterfront in Plymouth. Like much of the southern part of the island, the capital was devastated in the aftermath of the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption.
00027245 : MONTSERRAT - Artwork on a food shack depicting the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption, which devastated much of the island.
00027244 : MONTSERRAT - Old couple sheltering under an umbrella during an ash fall following the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano.
00027243 : MONTSERRAT - A retired American couple clear volcanic ash from their poolside terrace above the golf course outside Plymouth. Much of the southern part of the island was devastated by the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption.
00027242 : MONTSERRAT - A woman reads a local newspaper report on the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption. Much of the southern part of the island, including the island's capital, Plymouth, was devastated.
00027241 : MONTSERRAT - A boy washing volcanic ash from his body. The eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano caused serious damage to the fragile corals and ecosystem of the sea, with severe implications for the local fishing industry.
00027240 : MONTSERRAT - A visiting doctor from an American/Puerto Rican Christian charity examining children at a clinic. Many people suffered acute respiratory problems as a result of the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano.
00027239 : ERITREA Asmara - Railway workers in a workshop at the rail sidings in Asmara. Many of the engineers are over retirement age, having worked on the railway as far back as the 1940s. Construction of the 70km train line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027238 : ERITREA - People from outlying villages travel by train to the market in Ghinda. Construction of the 70km railway line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027237 : ERITREA - Railway line descending through the mountains from the capital Asmara towards Ghinda and then down to Massawa. Construction of the 70km train line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027236 : ERITREA Asmara - Graves at the Italian cemetery in Asmara. Eritrea was an Italian colony from the late 19th century until the 2nd World War.
00027235 : ERITREA Asmara - Steam engine workshop at the rail sidings in Asmara. Construction of the 70km train line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027234 : ERITREA - Heated debate as villagers at a remote stop try to pile as much as possible onto a train bound for the market at Ghinda. Construction of the 70km railway line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027233 : ERITREA Asmara - The name plate of an Italian-era steam locomotive engine. Construction of the 70km train line between the Eritrean capital and the Red Sea began in the late 19th century, shortly after the country became an Italian colony. With dozens of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, and an elevation of over 2000m, the railroad was a magnificent feat of engineering. But Eritrea's long war of independence left the track, which at times marked the front line, in a state of disrepair. In 2003 the railway was finally reopened.
00027232 : ERITREA Asmara - Dapper old men hang out on the street, Italian style, in Asmara.
00027231 : SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah - Dilapidated buildings in the old town.
00027230 : SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah - Cityscape by night.
00027229 : SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah - A boy with his grandfather, paddling in the Red Sea at dusk.
00027228 : SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah - Sudanese migrant workers at Jeddah's camel market.
00027227 : SAUDI ARABIA - Crew member on a Red Sea ferry between Sudan and Saudi Arabia praying in the ship's control room.
00027226 : SUDAN Suakin - Children walk through the ruins of the old town of Suakin, once Sudan's main port, which fell into ruin after the British built Port Sudan in the early 1900s.
00027225 : SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah - Passengers on a Red Sea ferry look back at the port of Jeddah as they sail towards Sudan.
00027224 : SUDAN Suakin - A man sleeps in the shade in the old town of Suakin. Once Sudan's main port, it has fallen into ruin since the British built Port Sudan in the early 1900s.
00027223 : SUDAN Suakin - Fishermen in Suakin. Once Sudan's main port, it has fallen into ruin since the British built Port Sudan in the early 1900s.
00027222 : SUDAN Suakin - A boy with his donkey in the old town of Suakin. Once Sudan's main port, it has fallen into ruin since the British built Port Sudan in the early 1900s.
00027221 : SUDAN - Sudanese children sleep on the Red Sea ferry from Suakin to Saudi Arabia.
00027220 : ERITREA Dekmhare - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Police pushing back the crowd as the peloton approaches.
00027219 : ERITREA Dekmhare - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. A rider from the Hidri team collapses after the longest stage in the race, 206km.
00027218 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Riders make their preparations for the next day.
00027217 : ERITREA Nr. Massawa. Nr. Massawa. Nr. Massawa. Nr. Massawa - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The peloton passes a herd of camels waiting to be loaded with firewood.
00027216 : ERITREA Keren - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. A rider has fallen just before the finish line in Keren.
00027215 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Spectators jump off a container for a closer look as they spot the riders arriving on the outskirts of Asmara.
00027214 : ERITREA Asmara - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Overall winner Habte Woldesimon being carried through the streets of Asmara. The Cinema Impero was built by Italian colonists in the 1930s.
00027213 : ERITREA Keren - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Local men watch preparations for the next stage.
00027212 : ERITREA Asmara - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. One more lap to go on the final stage.
00027211 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Police keep the crowd back with batons. The event is sponsored by Coca Cola.
00027210 : ERITREA Asmara - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Coptic priest in the crowd.
00027209 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The riders pass a bike repair shop near Asmara.
00027208 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The road twists down towards Massawa, a drop of 2500m.
00027207 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The Virgin Mary rides along with many of the cyclists.
00027206 : ERITREA Dekmhare - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. For reasons of economy, riders Kflay and Musie share a bed in a Dekmhare hostel.
00027205 : ERITREA Barentu - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. A rider at rest in a Barentu hostel.
00027204 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Riders make preparations for the next day's stage in their hostel room.
00027203 : ERITREA Keren - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Eager faces in the crowd.
00027202 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Hairpin corner on the way to Barentu.
00027201 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. A bad day for rider Amanuel Abraham on the stage from Keren to Barentu. First this puncture, which occurred when he was in the lead, and later disqualification for being pushed by his team car.
00027200 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Dust covers the road to Dekmhare.
00027199 : ERITREA Nr. Massawa - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Muddy roads after rainfall the previous day.
00027198 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Boys in their school uniforms cheer as the race passes by.
00027197 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Spectators under a huge baobab tree near Popenguine on the 5th stage.
00027196 : SENEGAL Sindia - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Dutch rider Marco Duys pumping up a tyre in Sindia on the 8th stage.
00027195 : SENEGAL Kaolack - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Italian rider Leonardo Scarcelli stretches after the finish of the 2nd stage.
00027194 : SENEGAL Tambacounda - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. An Angolan rider suffers injuries after a fall in Tambacounda.
00027193 : SENEGAL Kaolack - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. The Cameroonian team resting on their team bus before the 2nd stage. The team arrived a day late in Dakar after their plane was delayed, and had only a few hours of sleep before starting the race.
00027192 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. A French rider suffering from severe diarrhoea gets back on his bike after an unscheduled mid-stage stop.
00027191 : SENEGAL Tivaouane - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Dutch rider Marco Duys towering above the public in Tivaouane before the 6th stage.
00027190 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Rafaelle Illiano of the Selle Italia team and a local rider waiting for the presentation ceremony to start.
00027189 : SENEGAL Diourbel - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Turning point on the 2nd stage in Diourbel.
00027188 : SENEGAL Dakar - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. A soldier watches as the riders pass on the final stage in the city centre.
00027187 : SENEGAL Diourbel - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Laurant Zoncot of the Burkina Fasian team cooling his legs with water after the 2nd stage.
00027186 : SENEGAL Dakar - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. A youth enjoys the feeling of sitting on the bike of tour winner Leonardo Scarselli from the Selle Italia team.
00027185 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race passes a dead reptile by the side of the road near Kaolack.
00027184 : SENEGAL Popenguine - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Moroccan cyclist Adil Jelloul is comforted by a team mate after a fall close to the finish line in Popenguine. After treatment he was able to continue the race.
00027183 : TANZANIA Arusha - Women's group learning skills for income generation.
00027182 : MONTSERRAT - New houses in St John's, in the north of the island, built for people who lost their homes as a result of the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption.
00027181 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027180 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027179 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027178 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027177 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027176 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027175 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027174 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027173 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government soldiers pose with a monkey statue found in a burnt-out house. They had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027172 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The call centre of Gold Medal Travel caters for over 500,000 customers each year, and employs over 600 staff.
00027171 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Outside the US Embassy desperate civilians pile up the corpses of those killed in the latest mortar attack on central Monrovia. At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country, advancing on the capital city Monrovia. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027170 : LIBERIA Ganta - Child soldiers fighting on the side of government forces against LURD rebels in Ganta, a small town in the north of the country. Mounted on the back of their truck is an anti-aircraft gun. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027169 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighter wearing a bandana in the colours of the American flag. His forces were fighting against LURD rebels in Ganta, a small town in the north of the country. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027168 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighters travelling by motorbike. They had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027167 : LIBERIA Ganta - Young female government fighters stand guard. They had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027166 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighters showing off their weapons in an all-terrain vehicle. They had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027165 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighter standing on guard during a tropical rain shower. Government forces had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027164 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighter standing on guard during a tropical rain shower. Government forces had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027163 : LIBERIA Ganta - Government fighters on a pick-up truck. They had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027162 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Ten of thousands of displaced people have sought refuge in the Samuel K Doe stadium. As the ICRC (Red Cross) prepare to distribute food, hungry children wait for their turn. So that they are not lost by their parents, each has a number pinned to their chest. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027161 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Ten of thousands of displaced people have sought refuge in the Samuel K Doe stadium. As the ICRC (Red Cross) prepare to distribute food, hungry children wait for their turn. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027160 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Boy with Bart Simpson T-shirt next to drying clothes. He is living in a house which has become a temporary home to about 60 people from 5 extended families. Displaced people have squatted deserted buildings all over the city.
00027159 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Displaced people have squatted deserted buildings all over the city. Children taking a bath in the Eurobank, a five storey former office building where scores of families are living.
00027158 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Man shaving with a broken mirror in a house which has become a temporary home to about 60 people from 5 extended families. Displaced people have squatted deserted buildings all over the city.
00027157 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Crowd demonstrating for peace, waving palm branches. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027156 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Mother and child at an emergency clinic for cholera victims run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at the Redemption Hospital in Kroo Town, a suburb of Monrovia. Scores of people have died in a cholera epidemic among displaced people.
00027155 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Mothers with their malnourished children at an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at the Redemption Hospital in Kroo Town, a suburb of Monrovia. Scores of people have died in a cholera epidemic among displaced people.
00027154 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Among the estimated one million people displaced by the civil war in Liberia, thousands of children have been separated from their parents. The ICRC (Red Cross) display posters with photographs of unaccompanied children, in the hope that a family member might recognise them and they can be reunited eventually.
00027153 : LIBERIA Monrovia - The Red Cross (ICRC) is active in reuniting families separated during the decade-long civil war. This young girl lost her parents during the recent fighting, but they have been located alive and well at another IDP camp, so they will be reunited soon.
00027152 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A house which has become a temporary home to about 60 people from 5 extended families. Children go downstairs on a wooden ladder stuck in a hole in the floor while torrential rains pour in. Displaced people have squatted deserted buildings all over the city.
00027151 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Crowd demonstrating for peace, waving palm branches. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027150 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Crowd demonstrating for peace, waving palm branches. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027149 : LIBERIA Ganta - Civilians sing and dance to celebrate the victory of government forces, who had recently retaken Ganta, a small town in the north of the country, from LURD rebels. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027148 : LIBERIA Monrovia - In an deep alley between the street and a building, displaced people have squatted some space which they call their home. Boy washing the dishes.
00027147 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Victims of a mortar attack are rushed to an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027146 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A sign outside the Red Cross (ICRC) compound warns visitors not to bring any weapons inside.
00027145 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A victim's wife and son comfort each other as he is treated in an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). He was rushed into the operating room with shrapnel wounds in his abdomen. At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027144 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Young boys playing football on a vacant lot. Their families are among thousands of displaced people who have squatted deserted buildings all over the city to escape the fierce fighting.
00027143 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Tropical hard wood exports are the main source of income for the government of Liberia. After being accused of arms and diamond trafficking, the United Nations (UN)Security Council imposed an embargo on timber exports from Liberia, taking effect at the beginning of July 2003. This was one of the last loads of timber legally shipped from Monrovia harbour.
00027142 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Victims of a mortar attack are rushed to an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027141 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Victims of a mortar attack are rushed to an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). This woman was hit in the head by shrapnel. At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027140 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Victims of a mortar attack are rushed to an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). A man with shrapnel wounds in his abdomen says goodbye to his crying son before he goes into the emergency operating room. At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027139 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Victims of a mortar attack are rushed to an emergency clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). A man with shrapnel wounds in his abdomen says goodbye to his crying wife and son before he goes into the emergency operating room. At least ten people were killed when two mortars exploded in the walled compound of the Greystone complex, next to the US embassy. Thousands of displaced people had congregated there in the belief that the proximity of the embassy would offer some protection. The ongoing conflict in Liberia intensified in March 2003 when rebels opposed to the government of Charles Taylor gained territory across much of the country. In August 2003 Taylor agreed to hand over power to an interim government and went into exile, which led to the signing of a peace agreement.
00027138 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Slums in the Dum-dum area.
00027137 : AFGHANISTAN - Jonathan K Idema, known as 'Jack', on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad with local gunmen. Idema, an American mercenary, was organising protected convoys between the two cities after a spate of robberies and murders. In July 2004 Idema was arrested in Kabul after being accused of imprisoning civilians as part of his vigilante counter-terrorism operations.
00027136 : AFGHANISTAN - Jonathan K Idema, known as 'Jack', on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad. Idema, an American mercenary, was organising protected convoys between the two cities after a spate of robberies and murders. In July 2004 Idema was arrested in Kabul after being accused of imprisoning civilians as part of his vigilante counter-terrorism operations.
00027135 : AFGHANISTAN - Jonathan K Idema, known as 'Jack', on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad. Idema, an American mercenary, was organising protected convoys between the two cities after a spate of robberies and murders. In July 2004 Idema was arrested in Kabul after being accused of imprisoning civilians as part of his vigilante counter-terrorism operations.
00027134 : CHILE Nr. Temuco - Native Mapuche Indian man.
00027133 : TURKEY Istanbul - Russian street traders.
00027132 : TURKEY Istanbul - Russian trader selling contraband Marlboro cigarettes.
00027131 : TURKEY Istanbul - Russian street market.
00027130 : TURKEY Istanbul - Russian street traders fully laden with goods.
00027129 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Two girls who became homeless after being the victims of racist abuse on their council estate, now living in a Bed & Breakfast.
00027128 : TURKEY Istanbul - Russian street market.
00027127 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC San Juan province - Farmer at work in a rice field.
00027126 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santo Domingo - The crowded riverside barrio of La Cienega, where houses have no running water or sanitation.
00027125 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santo Domingo - Riverside shacks and luxury housing.
00027124 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santo Domingo - The crowded riverside barrio of La Cienega, where houses have no running water or sanitation.
00027123 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santo Domingo - Riverside shacks and luxury housing.
00027122 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Peravia province - Meeting of delegates from village-based coffee growers' associations in the mountainous province of Peravia.
00027121 : GRENADA - An American soldier on guard outside army HQ following the US invasion of the island after the collapse of the revolutionary government of Maurice Bishop.
00027120 : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Tamayo - A migrant Haitian cane cutter working on a sugar plantation.
00027119 : GRENADA St. Georges - The capital, St. Georges.
00027118 : GRENADA - Sir Eric Gairy, former Prime Minister, on his return to the island after the collapse of the revolutionary government of Maurice Bishop.
00027117 : GRENADA St. Georges - Primary school class.
00027116 : GRENADA - Roadside hoarding proclaiming equality for women, erected by the revolutionary government of Maurice Bishop.
00027115 : GRENADA St. Georges - Three members of an international peace-keeping force patrol St. Georges following the US invasion.
00027114 : GRENADA - A woman grades a tray of nutmeg, one of the island's main exports.
00027113 : GRENADA - Roadside hoarding erected by the revolutionary government of Maurice Bishop.
00027112 : GRENADA St. George's - Crowds watch a parade marking the third anniversary of the revolution which resulted in the overthrow of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy and his replacement by Maurice Bishop and the left-of-centre New Jewel Movement.
00027111 : GRENADA St. George's - Workers march through the streets of St. George's to celebrate the third anniversary of the revolution which resulted in the overthrow of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy and his replacement by Maurice Bishop and the left-of-centre New Jewel Movement.
00027110 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - Houses and fishing boats on the seafront on the outskirts of Soufriere.
00027109 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - Houses on the seafront on the outskirts of Soufriere.
00027108 : ST. LUCIA - Bananas cut for export on the weekly banana boat.
00027107 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - Houses on the seafront on the outskirts of Soufriere.
00027106 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - A teenager watches as a tourist cruiser leaves port.
00027105 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - Children collect water from a standpipe.
00027104 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - Local youths watch as a tourist yacht sails past the Soufriere seafront.
00027103 : ST. LUCIA Soufriere - A cruise ship steams past a small fishing boat in Soufriere Bay after a half day sightseeing visit.
00027102 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027101 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Woman drinking from a bucket at a water point, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027100 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Praying women, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027099 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - The Farchana UNHCR refugee camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand refugees. A boy is treated for wounds sustained when he fell off his donkey during the journey.
00027098 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Queue of containers next to a water source in Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. The camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur.
00027097 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Mother and child, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift shelters on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027096 : CHAD Nr. Iriba - Sudanese women carry jerry cans from a water point to their temporary shelter in the Iridimi refugee camp. They fled their homes in Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027095 : CHAD Nr. Iriba - Sudanese girls carry jerry cans from a water point to their temporary shelter in the Iridimi refugee camp. They fled their homes in Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027094 : CHAD Nr. Iriba - Sudanese refugees in the Iridimi refugee camp. They fled their homes in Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027093 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Mother and children at a queue of containers next to a water source in Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. The camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur.
00027092 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Young woman, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift shelters on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027091 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Sudanese woman collecting water from a well. With thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad, water is becoming scarce. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027090 : CHAD Nr. Iriba - Sudanese woman praying in the Iridimi refugee camp, for people who fled their homes in Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027089 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Sudanese woman collecting water from a well. With thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad, water is becoming scarce. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027088 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) in the village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed.
00027087 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - The Farchana UNHCR refugee camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand refugees. A UNHCR truck transports water from distant bore holes to the camp.
00027086 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) in the village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed.
00027085 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) prays in the village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed.
00027084 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) on patrol in the village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed.
00027083 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) on patrol in the village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed. The situation remains dangerous with militias still roaming the area.
00027082 : SUDAN Darfur - A young soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA).The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027081 : SUDAN Darfur - A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA).The SLA is one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed Arab militants.
00027080 : USA New York, United States of America - Annual 4th July hotdog eating contest. Competitors have to eat as many hotdogs as they possibly can in twelve minutes.
00027079 : USA New York, United States of America - Annual 4th July hotdog eating contest. Competitors have to eat as many hotdogs as they possibly can in twelve minutes. Rich 'the locust' LeFevre pauses to digest when it's all over.
00027078 : USA New York, United States of America - Annual 4th July hotdog eating contest. Competitors have to eat as many hotdogs as they possibly can in twelve minutes. The winner, Kobayashi, and the event's host pose with 53.5 hotdogs, his new world record.
00027077 : USA New York, United States of America - Annual 4th July hotdog eating contest. Competitors have to eat as many hotdogs as they possibly can in twelve minutes. Ed 'Cookie' Jarvis keeps stuffing them in.
00027076 : USA New York, United States of America - After watching the annual 4th July hotdog eating contest, fans tuck in to some fast food themselves.
00027075 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Shell's oil 'Manifold', Kdere. The manifold links pipes to the Bonny Oil Terminal. Although Shell oil wells are not operating, the pipes running through Ogoniland still carry oil from Shell's wells further east. In January 2004 Shell attempted to build a wall around the manifold in order to facilitate maintenance but it was demolished by local activists. Shell withdrew from Ogoniland in 1993 as a result of a campaign led by Ken Saro-Wiwa, who accused it of responsibility for widespread pollution. Mr Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995.
00027074 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Leaking oil 'Well-Head 18' in Kpor. The crude oil is turned brown when mixed under the high pressure with the natural gas also being carried in the pipes. Local witnesses report that the oil well, which is part of Shell reserves, has been leaking at this rate for five months. Local streams and wells for drinking water have been heavily polluted with crude oil.
00027073 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Leaking oil 'Well-Head 18' in Kpor. The crude oil is turned brown when mixed under the high pressure with the natural gas also being carried in the pipes. Local witnesses report that the oil well, which is part of Shell reserves, has been leaking at this rate for five months. Local streams and wells for drinking water have been heavily polluted with crude oil.
00027072 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Crude oil from a leaking oil well has polluted a drinking water well in Kpor. Local witnesses report that the oil well, which is part of Shell reserves, has been leaking at this rate for five months. Local streams are also heavily polluted with crude oil.
00027071 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Crude oil from a leaking oil well has polluted a drinking water well in Kpor. Local witnesses report that the oil well, which is part of Shell reserves, has been leaking at this rate for five months. Local streams are also heavily polluted with crude oil.
00027070 : ANGOLA Nr. Saurimo - A government-held enclave in rebel-controlled territory. Diamond mining in a huge hand-dug pit. Digging and washing.
00027069 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Disused Shell oil flow station, Kdere. Shell withdrew from Ogoniland in 1993 as a result of a campaign led by Ken Saro-Wiwa, who accused it of responsibility for widespread pollution. Mr Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995.
00027068 : NIGERIA Ogoniland - Disused Shell oil flow station, Kdere. Shell withdrew from Ogoniland in 1993 as a result of a campaign led by Ken Saro-Wiwa, who accused it of responsibility for widespread pollution. Mr Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995.
00027067 : NIGERIA Rokpokwu, Nr. Port Harcourt - Palm forest fire due to leak from Shell oil pipeline.
00027066 : NIGERIA Rokpokwu, Nr. Port Harcourt - Palm forest fire due to leak from Shell oil pipeline.
00027065 : ANGOLA Nr. Saurimo - A government-held enclave in rebel-controlled territory. Diamond mining in a huge hand-dug pit.
00027064 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Market vendors sell their wares from wheelbarrows.
00027063 : LIBERIA Voinjama - An injured former rebel fighter in a wheelchair.
00027062 : LIBERIA Voinjama - An elderly woman sits outside a shop called the African Food Center.
00027061 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Two young girls walk past a billboard urging Liberians to reconcile their differences by the year 2024. The billboard, signed by former president Charles Taylor, was presumably constructed in 1997 shortly after then-rebel leader Taylor assumed the presidency.
00027060 : LIBERIA Totota - A man builds a new house at the Totota camp for internally displaced people (IDPs).
00027059 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of a Nigerian military band nap while awaiting the arrival of Liberia's new president Gyude Bryant at Roberts International Airport, a day before his inauguration.
00027058 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A billboard reading "Unbalanced news is also a human rights abuse", signed by former president Charles Taylor.
00027057 : LIBERIA Totota - A woman builds a new house at the Totota camp for internally displaced people (IDPs).
00027056 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Gyude Bryant greets well wishers on his arrival at Roberts International Airport the day before his inauguration as Liberian president. On the right of the picture are his daughter, son and wife.
00027055 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A view of the Monrovia skyline from the roof of the Ducor Hotel, which was home to government fighters during the recent civil war.
00027054 : LIBERIA Voinjama - A United Nations peacekeeping soldier waves to a crowd as he guards a UN helicopter. A humanitarian and security assessment team had just landed in Voinjama, which was abandoned by the UN in 2000 after some of its workers were kidnapped.
00027053 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A cartoon lampooning former president Charles Taylor is sold to motorists waiting at a checkpoint.
00027052 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A crowd gathers to greet Gyude Bryant, the day before his inauguration as Liberian president.
00027051 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A cartoon lampooning former president Charles Taylor is sold to passers-by on the street.
00027050 : NIGERIA Lagos Island - Members of NASFAT (Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fathi Society of Nigeria) pray at the Marina Car Park on Lagos Island.
00027049 : NIGERIA Lagos - Anthony Olubunmi Okojie, Archbishop of Lagos and recently elevated to Cardinal.
00027048 : NIGERIA Benin City - A Nigerian police officer holds up a poster advertising a 500,000 Naira (US$3,800) reward offered by Scotland Yard. The British police appealed for information on the 'Boy Adam' case after forensic evidence proved that the boy, whose dismembered body was found in the River Thames, had originally come from the area around Benin City.
00027047 : NIGERIA - Guru Satmajaraji, cult leader.
00027046 : NIGERIA Iganmu, Lagos - The National Theatre building.
00027045 : NIGERIA Lagos - Prisoners awaiting trial in the back of a truck at the Lagos State Mobile Court as part of the Kick Against Indiscipline campaign.
00027044 : NIGERIA Lagos Island - Members of NASFAT (Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fathi Society of Nigeria) pray at the Marina Car Park on Lagos Island.
00027043 : NIGERIA Lagos Island - Members of NASFAT (Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fathi Society of Nigeria) pray at the Marina Car Park on Lagos Island.
00027042 : NIGERIA Lagos Island - Members of NASFAT (Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fathi Society of Nigeria) pray at the Marina Car Park on Lagos Island.
00027041 : NIGERIA Lagos - Lumber yard in the Makoko district.
00027040 : NIGERIA Lagos - Skyline of the Central Business District.
00027039 : NIGERIA Lagos - Lumber yard in the Makoko district.
00027038 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A gas flare at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027037 : NIGERIA Niger Delta, Bonny Island - A tanker labeled 'African Tankers' off Bonny Island.
00027036 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A worker makes a routine check at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027035 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A worker makes a routine check at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027034 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - Machinery at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027033 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A storage tank at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027032 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - Machinery at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027031 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - Machinery at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027030 : NIGERIA Niger Delta, Port Harcourt - Men fish and women wash clothes in a creek in the shadow of tall buildings in Port Harcourt.
00027029 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A Nigerian worker employed by the Korean construction firm Daewoo works on a new 'train' or production facility at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027028 : NIGERIA Bonny Island, Rivers State, Niger Delta - A Nigerian worker employed by the Korean construction firm Daewoo works on a new 'train' or production facility at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) facility on Bonny Island. The plant, built in part by Halliburton, is a joint venture between the government, Shell, ENI and Totalfinelf.
00027027 : NIGERIA Benin City - Chief Isekhuwe, a traditional ruler, moves his hands in front of a JuJu (voodoo) shrine.
00027026 : NIGERIA Niger Delta, Port Harcourt - A man fishing with a net in a creek near Port Harcourt.
00027025 : NIGERIA Niger Delta, Port Harcourt - A man stands by rusted and abandoned equipment in a creek in Port Harcourt.
00027024 : NIGERIA Niger Delta, Port Harcourt - Two boats sit moored in the harbour of Port Harcourt, the oil capital of Nigeria.
00027023 : NIGERIA Lagos - The Nigerian Stock Exchange.
00027022 : NIGERIA Katsina state - Attorneys for Amina Lawal listen to the Katsina State Judiciary Sharia Court of Appeal's ruling on her case. She had been sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery, but the conviction was quashed on appeal. Ten Northern Nigerian states now use the system of Sharia law. Sharia courts impose strict Islamic laws, including floggings and amputations for transgressions like theft and adultery.
00027021 : NIGERIA Lagos - The Nigerian Stock Exchange.
00027020 : NIGERIA Ibadan - A worker watches cigarettes coming off the production line at the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory, the only example of large foreign investment in the country which is not oil-related.
00027019 : NIGERIA Lagos - The Nigerian Stock Exchange.
00027018 : NIGERIA Ibadan - A worker inspects cigarettes coming off the production line at the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory, the only example of large foreign investment in the country which is not oil-related.
00027017 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Workers inspect cigarette packets coming off the production line at the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory, the only example of large foreign investment in the country which is not oil-related.
00027016 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Cigarettes are weighed at the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory, the only example of large foreign investment in the country which is not oil-related.
00027015 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Cigarettes coming off the production line at the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory, the only example of large foreign investment in the country which is not oil-related.
00027014 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Plants grow in test tubes in a laboratory facility at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. The IITA researches farming techniques and disease resistant crops to help alleviate food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa.
00027013 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Technicians organise plant samples in a laboratory facility at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. The IITA researches farming techniques and disease resistant crops to help alleviate food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa.
00027012 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Technicians organise plant samples in a laboratory facility at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. The IITA researches farming techniques and disease resistant crops to help alleviate food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa.
00027011 : NIGERIA Ibadan - Technicians organise plant samples in a laboratory facility at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. The IITA researches farming techniques and disease resistant crops to help alleviate food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa.
00027010 : NIGERIA Lagos - Prisoners stand before a judge at the Lagos State Mobile Court as part of the Kick Against Indiscipline campaign.
00027009 : NIGERIA Lagos - A polio victim rides a skateboard through traffic, begging from drivers.
00027008 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - A group of Bongwonga rubber workers. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027007 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equator District - A young man and woman with severed arms. Mola's hands, seated, were destroyed by gangrene after being tied too tightly by soldiers. Yoka's hand, standing, was cut off by soldiers wanting to claim him as killed. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against
00027006 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Alice Seeley Harris with a large group of Congolese children. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by the Belgian King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027005 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Women hostages taken after their husbands fled into the forest to escape the rubber quotas. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027004 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bauliri - Mannacled members of a chain gang at Bauliri. A common punishment for not paying taxes. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027003 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Nsongo District - Nsala of Wala with the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter murdered by ABIR militia. (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber company) This was all that remained that remained of a cannibal feast following the murder of his wife, son and daughter. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first or
00027002 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equator District - The Revd. John (far left) and Mrs Harris (far right) on a visit to the Congo. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by the Belgian King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027001 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - A group of European and Congolese at a missionary prayer meeting in the forest. Alice Seeley Harris is on the left of the group wearing a solar topee. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by the Belgian King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00027000 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equator District - A young boy forced to collect rubber for the Anglo-Belgium India Rubber Company (ABIR). The rubber quotas imposed on the indigenous population were so great that, as in this picture, the rubber vines were cut down rather than waiting for them to be tapped. As a result hardly any vines were left around the rubber stations. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's r
00026999 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Illinga - A young boy (Impongi) with a severed hand and foot, mutilated by sentries after his village failed to meet its rubber quota. He was a witness before Leopold's Commission of Enquiry which was an unsuccessful attempt to refute Roger Casement's damning report to the British government on human rights abuses in the Congo. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's reg
00026998 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equator District - A young boy with a severed hand, mutilated by Congolese militias after his father failed to meet his rubber quota. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026997 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Upper Congo - Swedish missionary and a young boy mutilated by a rubber sentry in the employ of a 'concessionnaire' company in the Upper Congo. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026996 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Nsongo District - Two British missionaries with Congolese men holding the severed hands of two men (Lingomo and Bolenge) from their village, murdered by rubber sentries from the ABIR (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber company). The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread
00026995 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Lokonai - Three head sentries of the ABIR (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber company) with a prisoner. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026994 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Girl with amputated foot, mutilated by sentries from a rubber concession. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026993 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Mangi - Reverend John Harris preaching in a forest clearing. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by the Belgian King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026992 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bolomboloko - Lomboto shot in wrist and hand by a rubber concession sentry and permanently disabled as a result. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026991 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equator District - Man being flogged with a chicotte (posed picture) by a Congo State soldier. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026990 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Baringa - Isekausu whose hand was chopped off by Ikombi, one of the rubber concession's sentries. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labour of the indigenous population to extract rubber from the jungle. As the demand for rubber grew King Leopold's private army of 16,000 mercenaries were given leave to use any method to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including random killing, mutilation, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. This photograph forms part of the Harris lantern slide collection. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband John Harris were missionaries in the Congo in the early 1900s. They produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by King Leopold II's regime. Their photographs formed part of what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against widespread human rights abuses.
00026989 : POLAND Nowy Sacz - Mother and daughters.
00026988 : PERU Cajamarca - US-controlled gold mine, using the cyanide extraction method.
00026987 : KENYA - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) doctor taking blood at remote rural clinic, in an attempt to identify a virus which had killed 200 people.
00026986 : SOUTH AFRICA Durban - The 13th International AIDS conference. Delegates and protesters on a 'Global march for access to HIV/AIDS treatment' from City Hall to Kingsmead stadium.
00026985 : INDIA - Rural family.
00026984 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Businessman Strive Masiyiwa using a mobile telephone in Sandton, the richest square mile in Africa.
00026983 : THAILAND Chiang Mai province - Woman (32) with AIDS clutching her son, who is HIV negative.
00026982 : SOUTH AFRICA Durban - The 13th International AIDS conference. Delegates and protesters on a 'Global march for access to HIV/AIDS treatment' from City Hall to Kingsmead stadium.
00026981 : THAILAND Chiang Mai province - Boy orphaned by AIDS.
00026980 : BANGLADESH Brahmaputra - The Ganges river delta.
00026979 : BANGLADESH - Women's credit group.
00026978 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Israeli settlement and road in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
00026977 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Israeli settlement in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
00026976 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - King David hotel and YMCA.
00026975 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Mount of Olives. Orthodox church (Mary Magdelene) and Jewish cemetery.
00026974 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Old City and Mount of Olives.
00026973 : ISRAEL Haifa - Jew and Ahmadya Muslim shaking hands in Katabir.
00026972 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - The Jerusalem-Hebron road, forbidden to Palestinians.
00026971 : ISRAEL Haifa - Baha'i gardens on Mount Carmel.
00026970 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Palestinians walking to Al Aqsa mosque on a Friday.
00026969 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Russian pilgrim lighting a candle in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026968 : ISRAEL Haifa - Ahmadya Muslim in Katabir.
00026967 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Coptic Egyptian monk at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026966 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Armenian celebration in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026965 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Armenian celebration in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026964 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Ethiopian Coptic monk at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026963 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Bar mitsvah at the Western Wall.
00026962 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - The tomb of Jesus Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00026961 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Lebanese Catholic NGO worker running a maternity hospital in Bethlehem.
00026960 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Bar mitsvah at the Western Wall.
00026959 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Girl preparing Shabbat dinner.
00026958 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Soldier praying at the Western Wall.
00026957 : ISRAEL Tiberiade - Jewish father and sons.
00026956 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Jewish mother laying the table for Shabbat dinner.
00026955 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Bar mitsvah at the Western Wall.
00026954 : ISRAEL - Torah scrolls.
00026953 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Man at the Western Wall.
00026952 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - May Day 2000. Anti-capitalist 'celebration' organised by Reclaim the Streets in Parliament Square.
00026951 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Tiffilin worn at the Western Wall.
00026950 : CHINA Zhenzhou, Henan Province - AIDS activist Gao Yaojie with the educational booklets she has written about the syndrome. She was the recipient of the Thomas Mann Award for her work raising awareness of the AIDS epidemic in Henan. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in the province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026949 : CHINA Henan Province - 27 year old AIDS patient Ding Hongjun lies in his death bed in Dongguan village. Ding died shortly after this photo was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026948 : CHINA Henan Province - 61 year old Ding Zhanghong at his home in Dongguan village.
00026947 : CHINA Henan Province - 27 year old AIDS patient Ding Hongjun lies in his death bed in Dongguan village. Ding died shortly after this photo was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026946 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Wang Liang at his home in Dongguan village with various antibiotics and cold medicines which he takes in hope of easing his chronic headaches, fevers and diarrhoea. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026945 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Wang Liang at his home in Dongguan village with various antibiotics and cold medicines which he takes in hope of easing his chronic headaches, fevers and diarrhoea. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026944 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Wang Liang at his home in Dongguan village with various antibiotics and cold medicines which he takes in hope of easing his chronic headaches, fevers and diarrhoea. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026943 : CHINA Henan Province - The rotten finger nails of an AIDS patient in Dongguan village. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026942 : CHINA Henan Province - Flanked by his children (aged 7 and 1) and his mother, 27 year old AIDS patient Ding Hongjun lies in his death bed in Dongguan village. Ding died shortly after this photo was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026941 : CHINA Henan Province - Orphan Jian Guo with his grieving grandparents at their home in Dongguan village. Both of Jian Guo's parents died from AIDS. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026940 : CHINA Henan Province - Orphan Jian Guo at his home in Dongguan village. Both of Jian Guo's parents died from AIDS. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026939 : CHINA Henan Province - The son of an AIDS patient reads a government pamphlet about the disease at his home in Dongguan village. AIDS patients in Henan have received little or no assistance from the government. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026938 : CHINA Henan Province - Without any forseeable cure or help from the authorities, alcoholism, illustrated by these empty liquor bottles, has gripped the lives of many male AIDS patients in Dongguan village. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026937 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patients (left to right) Zhao Sanming, Wang Liang and Zhao Yong at Zhao's house in Dongguan village. Wang is holding a government pamphlet calling for the care of people with AIDS. In reality, however, AIDS patients in Henan have received little or no assistance from the government. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in the province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026936 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patients Yu Erguan (back, now deceased) and Zhao Yong (front) show their arms at Zhao's house in Dongguan village. Both men sold blood many times during the early 1990s. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026935 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Rong Cuihua at her home in Dongguan village. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026934 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Daguan (now deceased) showing his rotting hands at his home in Dongguan village. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026933 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Daguan (now deceased) showing his rotting hands at his home in Dongguan village. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026932 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Wang Cuizhi shows her blood giving card in front of her home in Dongguan village. She had tested positive for Hepatitis B when she gave blood for the first time yet the collection centre still took her blood, over 30 times in total. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026931 : CHINA Henan Province - 7 year old Wang Keyun crying at his mother's grave in Dongguan village. She died of AIDS in 2001. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026930 : CHINA Henan Province - 7 year old Wang Keyun and 13 year old Wang Jiashu paying respect to their mother, who died of AIDS in 2001, at her grave in Dongguan village. Their father Wang Liang, with them here, also has the disease. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026929 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Da Guan attached to an IV drip, the only means of treatment against a high fever, at his home in Dongguan village. He died two weeks after this picture was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026928 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Da Guan sitting on his sick bed at home in Dongguan village. A recent convert to Christianity, he died two weeks after this picture was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026927 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Da Guan attached to an IV drip, the only means of treatment against a high fever, at his home in Dongguan village. He died two weeks after this picture was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026925 : CHINA Henan Province - AIDS patient Yu Da Guan attached to an IV drip, the only means of treatment against a high fever, at his home in Dongguan village. He died two weeks after this picture was taken. It is estimated that over 700,000 people in Henan province have become infected with HIV through selling blood to unsanitary government-permitted blood collection centres.
00026924 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Hand holding bundle of bank notes featuring then-President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
00026923 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The City Hotel, where Graham Greene lived whilst in Freetown in 1941. His acclaimed novel 'The Heart of the Matter' was based on his experiences there.
00026922 : GUATEMALA Quiche - Father and son transporting heavy planks using rope over their heads.
00026921 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Smiling girls outside a mosque.
00026920 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A driver poses proudly with his Ambassador car.
00026919 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A female beggar reaches out her hand towards a woman. The huge mosque behind was built in 1591.
00026918 : GUATEMALA Quiche - Returned refugees who had been exiled across the Mexican border hold speeches on the airstrip.
00026917 : GUATEMALA Quiche - Father and son prepare to bring oranges to the market.
00026916 : GUATEMALA Quiche - Father and son carrying heavy loads of oranges to the market.
00026915 : GUATEMALA - Smiling mother with her baby on her back.
00026914 : GUATEMALA - A grieving woman brings flowers to a church yard.
00026913 : GUATEMALA Guatemala City - Woman doing the laundry outside her home in Zona 21 amongst buckets and barrels of water.
00026912 : GUATEMALA - Elderly woman in traditional clothing.
00026911 : GUATEMALA - Young internally-displaced (IDP) girl.
00026910 : GUATEMALA - Five men struggle to build a path for a lorry across a mud hole.
00026909 : GUATEMALA - A little girl and her mother collect water from a tap.
00026908 : GUATEMALA Santia Gito - Children in a simple classroom with a soil floor. They were among a community of 641 internally-displaced people (IDPs) who established themselves deep in the jungle hiding from the military.
00026907 : GUATEMALA Santia Gito - A couple stand in front of what was their home for several years. They were among a community of 641 internally-displaced people (IDPs) who established themselves deep in the jungle hiding from the military.
00026906 : BANGLADESH - Recipient of Grameen Bank loan, who purchased a rickshaw to generate income.
00026905 : MEXICO Cantabal, Chiapas - Guatemalan refugee girl with her brother on her back collecting drinking water in Santa Maria settlement.
00026904 : MEXICO Cantabal, Chiapas - Guatemalan refugee women in Santa Maria settlement.
00026903 : MEXICO Chiapas - Guatemalan refugees line up under the tail of a transport plane, ready to fly them home from many years in exile.
00026902 : MEXICO Mexico City - Kids playing in the courtyard of Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building which is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026901 : MEXICO Mexico City - Julio washes with cold water from a bucket. The tiny room he shares with his single mother and two brothers has no running water or toilet. They live in Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building which is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026900 : MEXICO Mexico City - Men entertain themselves in the afternoons by betting on dominoes. They live in Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building which is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026899 : MEXICO Mexico City - Washing hangs out to dry on the roof in view of the Central Business District. Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building, is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026898 : MEXICO Mexico City - A woman in traditional dress carrying her washing. Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building, is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026897 : MEXICO Mexico City - Daniel and his younger sister Viridiana draw and practice their writing. Many of the children are attending primary school but few go on to secondary education. Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building, is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026896 : MEXICO Mexico City - Alfredo (26) sells candy at a busy intersection to support his family. He has four children and lives in Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building which is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026895 : MEXICO Mexico City - Alicia selling snacks at the roadside with two of her children. They live in Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building which is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026894 : MEXICO Mexico City - Mazahua Indian Alicia holds her 9 month old grandson Jose Saul on the corner of her block. The balloons are in celebration of the canonisation of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexico's first indigenous saint.
00026893 : MEXICO Mexico City - Julio and Enrico washing up at the community's sole supply of running water. Mansion Mazahua, a crumbling colonial building, is home to 42 families of Mazahua Indians. Forced to migrate to the city in search of a livelihood, they live in cramped conditions in the earthquake-damaged building.
00026892 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026891 : EGYPT Alexandria - Sri Lankan tea expert tasting tea samples at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026890 : EGYPT Alexandria - Importing Western standards of hygiene in Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and export to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026889 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory production line (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026888 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026887 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory production line (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026886 : EGYPT Alexandria - Woman wearing brand-coordinated headscarf working on production line at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026885 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026884 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026883 : EGYPT Alexandria - Woman wearing brand-coordinated headscarf working on production line at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026882 : EGYPT Alexandria - Woman wearing brand-coordinated headscarf working on production line at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026881 : EGYPT Alexandria - Women wearing brand-coordinated headscarves working on production line at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026880 : EGYPT Alexandria - Women wearing brand-coordinated headscarves working on production line at Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026879 : ZIMBABWE Victoria Falls - Tribal dancer with massive mask.
00026878 : EGYPT Alexandria - Lipton tea factory (blending and packing for Egypt and exports to several other countries in the region) in an industrial zone outside the city. Lipton is a brand of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever.
00026877 : PHILIPPINES - Schoolgirl crosses playground covered in drying rice.
00026876 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Child in shanty slum home.
00026875 : AUSTRALIA Arnhem Land Northern Territory - Children drinking from the Mann river. Aborigines.
00026874 : AUSTRALIA Arnhem Land Northern Territory - 'School of the air' - a young girl speaking to her teacher by CB radio from her remote home at Murwangi cattle station.
00026873 : AUSTRALIA Arnhem Land Northern Territory - Darren being painted by his father. Aborigines.
00026872 : AUSTRALIA Arnhem Land Northern Territory - Initiation ceremony - a young boy about to be circumcised is given a sacred dilly bag to clutch during the operation. Aborigines.
00026871 : SUDAN Darfur - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan meeting the residents of a camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs) in Al Fasher, Darfur. Up to a million people have fled their homes in Darfur following violent attacks by government-backed Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026870 : SUDAN Darfur - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan talks to the press at a camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs) in Al Fasher, Darfur. Up to a million people have fled their homes in Darfur following violent attacks by government-backed Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026869 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. Women waiting for a bus are passed by the peloton on its way to Barentu.
00026868 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The peloton passes a pair of abandoned Fiat 500 cars outside Asmara.
00026867 : ERITREA - The Tour of Eritrea cycle race. The peloton passes an abandoned tank in the desert highlands, a relic of the war for independence.
00026866 : SENEGAL - Spectators from a small village near Wassadou watch the Tour du Senegal cycle race.
00026865 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Aerial view of the peloton passing through a traditional village near Wassadou.
00026864 : SENEGAL - The Tour du Senegal cycle race. A cyclist riding towards the start line in Tambacounda. Heavy rains made it impossible to ride all the way to Wassadou, so the stage was shortened.
00026863 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Hadoun Maroum, an 86 year old blind man, waiting for a truck. The UNHCR and Red Cross are transporting thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence in Darfur, from the Sudan border to camps inside Chad.
00026862 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Hadoun Maroum, an 86 year old blind man, waiting for a truck. The UNHCR and Red Cross are transporting thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence in Darfur, from the Sudan border to camps inside Chad.
00026861 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Sudanese woman on a truck waiting for departure. The UNHCR and Red Cross are transporting thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence in Darfur, from the Sudan border to camps inside Chad.
00026860 : SUDAN Darfur - Old man in front of the ruins of his shop in the destroyed village of Terbeba. After Janjaweed Arab militants attacked the village he evacuated his family across the Chadian border to a refugee camp.
00026859 : SUDAN Darfur - The Sudanese flag hangs from the ruins of a hut in the destroyed village of Terbeba, which was razed by Janjaweed Arab militants. A soldier from the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), one of two rebel groups fighting against the government and Janjaweed, surveys the scene.
00026858 : SUDAN Darfur - Magloua Mohammed Aden (8) is suffering from malnourishment. Medical staff in Kalma IDP camp measure her height in order to calculate the severity of her condition. Her family fled their village, Halouf, after it was burnt down by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026857 : SUDAN Darfur - Mother with malnourished child in Kalma IDP camp. Their village, Halouf, was burnt down by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026856 : SUDAN Darfur - Internally displaced (IDP) mother bringing her malnourished child to a therapeutic feeding centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Holland.
00026855 : SUDAN Darfur - Internally displaced people (IDPs) near Garsila take shelter in a school building.
00026854 : CHAD Mile - Family from Darfur, newly arrived in a refugee camp. They were transported in Red Cross trucks from the Sudanese border to a site 50 km inside Chad where the UNHCR has established a camp. They are waiting to be registered, after which they will receive tents and other assistance.
00026853 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Woman and her donkey waiting near a water point in the riverbed, which forms the border between Sudan and Chad. She and her family fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants. In this northern sector of the border region thousands of refugees are sleeping in the open and are dependent on a few muddy water points.
00026852 : CHAD Mile - Family from Darfur arriving in a refugee camp. They were transported in Red Cross trucks from the Sudanese border to a site 50 km inside Chad where the UNHCR has established a camp.
00026851 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. Sudanese man who fled the violence in Darfur takes shelter in a tent. The Farchana camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand refugees.
00026850 : CHAD Mile - Family from Darfur, newly arrived in a refugee camp. They were transported in Red Cross trucks from the Sudanese border to a site 50 km inside Chad where the UNHCR has established a camp. They are waiting to be registered, after which they will receive tents and other assistance.
00026849 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026848 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Queue of containers next to a water source in Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. The camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur.
00026847 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. The camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur.
00026846 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Woman waiting for food distribution in Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. The camp, about 50 km from the Sudan border, houses several thousand Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence in Darfur.
00026845 : CHAD Iriba - Mother holding her sick, malnourished child in a therapeutic feeding centre managed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). At least 100,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the border into Chad to escape the violence in Darfur.
00026844 : CHAD Iriba - Mother holding her sick, malnourished child in a therapeutic feeding centre managed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). At least 100,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the border into Chad to escape the violence in Darfur.
00026843 : CHAD Mile - Family from Darfur arriving in a refugee camp. They were transported in Red Cross trucks from the Sudanese border to a site 50 km inside Chad where the UNHCR has established a camp.
00026842 : CHAD Mile - Family from Darfur arriving in a refugee camp. They were transported in Red Cross trucks from the Sudanese border to a site 50 km inside Chad where the UNHCR has established a camp.
00026841 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Praying women, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026840 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Hadoun Maroum, an 86 year old blind man, waiting for a truck. The UNHCR and Red Cross are transporting thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence in Darfur, from the Sudan border to camps inside Chad.
00026839 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - The UNHCR and Red Cross transporting thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence in Darfur, from the Sudan border to camps inside Chad.
00026838 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Praying women, amongst thousands of refugees living in makeshift tents on the border between Sudan and Chad. They fled Darfur after attacks by Janjaweed Arab militants.
00026837 : JORDAN Aqaba - Bathers covering themselves in mud on the shores of the Dead sea.
00026836 : SAUDI ARABIA - Sign for men's and women's toilets.
00026835 : TAIWAN Taipei - Dragonboat festival, an important date in the Chinese calendar.
00026834 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Woman drinking a milkshake.
00026833 : TAIWAN Taipei - Dragonboat festival. A female team member riding the prow of a traditional dragonboat, preparing to grab the flag at the finishing line.
00026832 : PHILIPPINES Central Mindanao - Mother and daughter in their home in the forest.
00026831 : PAKISTAN Nr. Hyderabad - Tractor in the Indus River.
00026830 : RWANDA Butare - Distribution of pesticides for coffee crops.
00026829 : NEPAL - Mother and child.
00026828 : RWANDA Gitarama - Two girls who were orphaned in the genocide of 1994. They live in a house paid for by the government as part of its FARG program to help orphans and widows.
00026827 : RWANDA Kigali - Billboard encouraging the use of condoms.
00026826 : RWANDA Gitarama - Girl in a hairdressing salon using a mobile telephone.
00026825 : RWANDA Gitarama - Coffee beans.
00026824 : RWANDA Gitarama - Girl in a hairdressing salon having her hair and nails done.
00026823 : RWANDA Butare - Hand selection of coffee beans.
00026822 : RWANDA Gitarama - House destroyed during the genocide in 1994.
00026821 : RWANDA Gitarama - Mother breastfeeding her baby.
00026820 : RWANDA Gitarama - Boys running home after school.
00026819 : RWANDA Gitarama - Billboard promoting Gacaca, the traditional form of Rwandan justice. Community gacaca meetings have been revived to deal with the crimes committed during the genocide of 1994.
00026818 : RWANDA Gitarama - Boy walking home from school.
00026817 : RWANDA Gitarama - Prisoners working in the fields which belong to the prison. Rwanda has organised a system in which those convicted of crimes during the genocide of 1994 have to work for society as part of their punishment.
00026816 : RWANDA Gitarama - Children collecting water.
00026815 : RWANDA Gitarama - Children collecting water.
00026814 : RWANDA Gitarama - Prisoners working in the fields which belong to the prison. Rwanda has organised a system in which those convicted of crimes during the genocide of 1994 have to work for society as part of their punishment.
00026813 : RWANDA Gitarama - Prisoners working in the fields which belong to the prison. Rwanda has organised a system in which those convicted of crimes during the genocide of 1994 have to work for society as part of their punishment.
00026812 : RWANDA Butare - Rural scene.
00026811 : RWANDA Gitarama - Prisoners working in the fields which belong to the prison. Rwanda has organised a system in which those convicted of crimes during the genocide of 1994 have to work for society as part of their punishment.
00026810 : RWANDA Butare - Rural scene.
00026809 : SOUTH AFRICA KwaZulu Natal - Two young mothers walk home with their babies on their backs.
00026808 : RWANDA Butare - Women and children.
00026807 : INDIA Tamil Nadu - Child labourers working in a brick factory.
00026806 : SOUTH AFRICA KwaZulu Natal - Zulu women coming back from the market.
00026805 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - A girl sleeps outside the house where she is employed as a maid.
00026804 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - A film being shot in a Bollywood studio.
00026803 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - Women who work as maids for middle class families.
00026802 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - A film being shot in a Bollywood studio. One of the unwritten rules of the Indian movie is that there should be a dance scene at least every twenty minutes. In this picture, standing between the actor and the kissing girl is Karisma Kapoor, one of India's biggest film stars.
00026801 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - Shadows on the wall of a Bollywood film studio.
00026800 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - Bollywood film poster being painted by hand.
00026799 : CHINA Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong Province - A new shopping centre in the city centre, with a large photograph of ex-President Jiang Zemin and other leaders.
00026798 : CHINA - Girl eating an ice cream on the train between Beijing and Guangzhou.
00026797 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kinshasa - Members of President Kabila's military guard.
00026796 : BELGIUM Antwerp, Flanders - An Indian diamond dealer examines a pile of diamonds.
00026795 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - Body building contest during the Amsterdam Gay Games.
00026794 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kinshasa - Children playing football in the street run past an undertaker's premises.
00026793 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - Couples at a party during the Amsterdam Gay Games.
00026792 : EAST TIMOR Ermera - Women in the market.
00026791 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Graffiti and a masked youth on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00026790 : UNITED KINGDOM East Midlands, England, Great Britain, UK - Glassblower working in hot, dangerous conditions.
00026789 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Police laboratories in Central London. An officer holds up a vial containing liquid methamphetamine, a highly addictive illegal stimulant.
00026788 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Joyriders celebrate after trashing and burning a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00026787 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Joyriders celebrate after trashing and burning a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00026786 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Joyriders celebrate after trashing and burning a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00026785 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Police officer dealing with an unruly, drunken man in Islington.
00026784 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Footpath in the countryside.
00026783 : UNITED KINGDOM Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Female textile worker at a bra factory.
00026782 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Police pursuing joyriders on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00026781 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Sainsbury's supermarket in Greenwich, designed to harness sustainable power and save energy.
00026780 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Sainsbury's supermarket in Greenwich, designed to harness sustainable power and save energy.
00026779 : UNITED KINGDOM Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Sex workers on the streets.
00026778 : UNITED KINGDOM Hamilton, nr. Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Police officer enforcing a curfew on unruly teenagers.
00026777 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Unemployed Asian youth in Tower Hamlets.
00026776 : UNITED KINGDOM Hamilton, nr. Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Condemmed housing in an area which suffers from high levels of social deprivation.
00026775 : UNITED KINGDOM Nottingham, England, Great Britain, UK - Young prostitutes working from a small flat.
00026774 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - A teenage girl walks her dog at dusk on the Manor estate.
00026773 : BULGARIA - Coke refining worker suffering from the effects of chronic silicosis as a result of poor safety standards in the non-regulated industry.
00026772 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Man wearing an NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) protection suit outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster.
00026771 : UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - A huge bonfire is lit in a Loyalist area of West Belfast as part of the annual Orange marching season.
00026770 : FALKLAND ISLANDS Blue Beach - Cemetery for Argentinian dead from the Falklands War.
00026769 : COLOMBIA Nr. Bogota - Worker at a rose plantation. The flowers are exported to Europe for Valentines Day.
00026768 : KAZAKHSTAN Nr. Almaty - A man who hunts hares, foxes and even wolves with his tame golden eagle.
00026767 : FALKLAND ISLANDS Port Stanley - Memorial for British dead from the Falklands War.
00026766 : FALKLAND ISLANDS Blue Beach - Cemetery for Argentinian dead from the Falklands War.
00026765 : FALKLAND ISLANDS Blue Beach - Cemetery for Argentinian dead from the Falklands War.
00026764 : GHANA - Children in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026763 : GHANA - Children in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026762 : GHANA - Child in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026761 : GHANA - Child in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa using a clockwork radio.
00026760 : GHANA - Child in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa using a clockwork radio.
00026759 : GHANA - Child in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026758 : GHANA - Children in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026757 : GHANA - Teacher and pupil at the school in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026756 : GHANA - Pupils at the school in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026755 : GHANA - Preparing food in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026754 : GHANA - Pupils at the school in the village of Ecomfi Attackwa.
00026753 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Mostar - Life goes on amidst the ruins of Mostar following vicious street fighting between Bosnian Croats and Muslims.
00026752 : CROATIA Osijek - Croatian soldier fighting the Serbs for control of the eastern town of Osijek. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00026751 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Henry Kissinger acts as an international observer in the run up to South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026750 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Wild celebrations in Soweto following the African National Congress (ANC) victory in South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026749 : SOUTH AFRICA Lindelani township, Natal - Nelson Mandela addresses an African National Congress (ANC) rally in the run up to South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026748 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Multiracial classes at the Sacred Heart school.
00026747 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Wild celebrations in Soweto following the African National Congress (ANC) victory in South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026746 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Wild celebrations in Soweto following the African National Congress (ANC) victory in South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026745 : SOUTH AFRICA Lindelani township, Natal - People queue for hours to vote in South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026744 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Multiracial couple dancing at a party following the African National Congress (ANC) victory in South Africa's first multiracial election.
00026743 : SOUTH AFRICA KwaZulu Natal - Subsistence farming at dusk.
00026742 : SOUTH AFRICA - Open cast gold mine.
00026741 : SOUTH AFRICA - Open cast gold mine.
00026740 : SOUTH AFRICA Lindelani township, Natal - The first white child to attend a formerly all-black school in Lindelani township, following the election of Nelson Mandela to power.
00026739 : THAILAND Chiang Mai Province - Hmong farmer.
00026738 : THAILAND Mae Hong Son Province - Karen tribeswomen.
00026737 : NEPAL East - Mother and son at trail rest stop, on the trek to Makalu base camp.
00026736 : PAKISTAN Karachi - Fish being graded.
00026735 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - The Weather Project, by Olafur Eliasson, an installation using mirrors, light and mist to create the illusion of an amber sun glowing through clouds in the vast turbine hall of the Tate Modern art gallery.
00026734 : CHINA Beijing - Businessman entering car outside new apartment block in downtown Beijing.
00026733 : IRAQ Baghdad - An Iraqi policeman outside the Green Zone in Baghdad on the day that the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) officially handed over power to an interim Iraqi government. In the lead up to the handover, there had been many attacks against Iraqi police and other civil servants of the new interim government.
00026732 : IRAQ Baghdad - An Iraqi policeman outside the Green Zone in Baghdad on the day that the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) officially handed over power to an interim Iraqi government. In the lead up to the handover, there had been many attacks against Iraqi police and other civil servants of the new interim government.
00026731 : IRAQ Baghdad - The Iraqi flag flies for the first time above the heavily fortified compound known as the Green Zone, on the day that the occupation authorities officially handed political control to an interim Iraqi government. The Green Zone had until then been the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
00026730 : IRAQ Baghdad - Men sit and smoke water pipes in a cafe beside the River Tigris.
00026729 : IRAQ Baghdad - A political banner for the Iraqi Democratic Congress (IDC) outside a heavily fortified compound in the Green Zone.
00026728 : IRAQ Baghdad - Medics from the US army's 1st Cavalry arrive at the scene of an attack on American forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026727 : IRAQ Baghdad - Bystanders scatter as shots are fired in an attack on American forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026726 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb.
00026725 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb.
00026724 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb. Mehdi army fighters survey the scene from the rooftops.
00026723 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb. Mehdi army fighters survey the scene from the rooftops.
00026722 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb. Mehdi army fighters survey the scene from the rooftops.
00026721 : IRAQ Baghdad - The faithful chant their support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Friday prayers at the Al Hekma Mosque in the Sadr City suburb. Mehdi army fighters survey the scene from the rooftops.
00026720 : IRAQ Baghdad - Karama police station in the Sadr City suburb. Police chief Zahara Hamid poses in front of the police station, destroyed a week earlier by Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
00026719 : IRAQ Baghdad - Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the Sadr City suburb.
00026718 : IRAQ Baghdad - Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) police checkpoint in Tahrir Square. Officers search vehicles for explosives and weapons.
00026717 : IRAQ Baghdad - Funeral of an Iraqi police officer killed by militants.
00026716 : IRAQ Baghdad - Supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrate against the new interim Iraqi government that has just been announced.
00026715 : IRAQ Baghdad - The office of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Sadr City suburb.
00026714 : IRAQ Baghdad - The vehicle of a top Shia cleric leaves the Al Hekma mosque compound in the Sadr City suburb after Friday prayers.
00026713 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Sabah al-Shewli with his ten year old son, who he says 'lost his mind' after an American attack on their home in which two security guards from a gas station across the road were killed and Sabah himself lost two fingers.
00026712 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Sabah al-Shewli, who lost two fingers in an American attack on their home in which two security guards from a gas station across the road were killed.
00026711 : ALBANIA Tirana - Elderly woman selling chillies in an open market in Tirana.
00026710 : ALBANIA Tirana - Packed old Chinese bus in the centre of the capital.
00026709 : ALBANIA - Woman winnowing grain.
00026708 : ALBANIA Tirana - Street money changer's bag stuffed full of local and foreign currency. The main trade is from US dollars and Deutshmarks into Leke - the local currency.
00026707 : ALBANIA Tirana - Poor rural families bring their produce to sell on the streets of the capital.
00026706 : ALBANIA - Portrait of an elderly farmer.
00026705 : ALBANIA Tirana - Children playing with a home made toy in the street.
00026704 : ALBANIA - Portrait of a poor family in a small village in the north of the country.
00026703 : AUSTRALIA Alice Springs - An Aborigine woman drinking beer in front of her house in a slum area of Alice Springs. Alcohol abuse is a major problem amongst the Australian Aborigines.
00026702 : AUSTRALIA Alice Springs - A young child playing with local Aborigine children.
00026701 : AUSTRALIA Alice Springs - An Aborigine woman gives a demonstrates how to cook a lizard to a tourist. The Aborigines offer tour groups shows of how they live in the bush although in fact they live in the slums of Alice Springs.
00026700 : BURKINA FASO - Women learning to sew at a Red Cross centre.
00026699 : CAMBODIA Mondol Kiri - Hairdresser and beautician in the market.
00026698 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - A woman walks along a newly laid sewer in the capital's slums.
00026697 : CAMBODIA Cham Back, Charen region - Girls on the way home from school.
00026696 : CAMBODIA Sre Ken - A grandmother holds her grandchild in front of the the village family home
00026695 : CAMBODIA Kam Reang - Women eating in a brothel. Seven Vietnamese and three Khmer women work here.
00026694 : CAMBODIA Kam Reang - Women in a brothel. Seven Vietnamese and 3 Khmer women work here.
00026693 : CAMBODIA Rattana Kiri, Ban Lorng - Old indigenous man weaving a basket.
00026692 : CAMBODIA Kam Reang - Outreach workers provide information on HIV/Aids prevention to women working in a brothel. Seven Vietnamese and three khmer women work here.
00026691 : CAMBODIA Rattana Kiri, Ban Lorng - Family travelling home from market on their elephant.
00026690 : CAMBODIA Trang, Charen commune - Village Livestock Agent (VLA) demonstrating how to inject a cow as part of veterinary programme.
00026689 : CAMBODIA Peam Kohsnar commune, Stueng Trang district - A man collecting water from the river in the birthplace of Hun Sen, Cambodia's prime minister.
00026688 : CAMBODIA Sre Ken, Charen commune - Old man smoking a cheroot.
00026687 : CAMBODIA Oral - Children hitch a ride to school on the back of an ox cart.
00026686 : CAMBODIA Kroch Chhmar District hospital - A young girl with malaria is looked after by her mother while she is in hospital.
00026685 : CAMBODIA Rattana Kiri - Children at the village well.
00026684 : CAMBODIA Anlung Reg - Paying in savings to the village bank in a scheme set up by the Lutheran World Federation.
00026683 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Metal recycling business - recycling munitions left over from the war.
00026682 : CAMBODIA Battambang - Street in the centre of town.
00026681 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Street welding business.
00026680 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Street mechanics.
00026679 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Selling bananas in the market.
00026678 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Young Buddhist monk studying in his room.
00026677 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - An elephant walks past the royal palace.
00026676 : CAMBODIA Serei Saophoon, Battambang province - Child labour. Boy carrying stones in a quarry. He works with his family who earn a dollar a day breaking stones to sell.
00026675 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Young Buddhist monk in pagoda.
00026674 : CAMBODIA Poi Pet - Boy who works portering goods over the border to Thailand.
00026673 : CAMBODIA Keang Kesi, Battambang province - Very sick HIV+ man at home with his family.
00026672 : CAMBODIA Keang Kesi, Battambang province - HIV+ woman shows the sores on her arms. Her husband is also sick.
00026671 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - A prostitute leans out the window of a brothel to buy ice cream from a street seller.
00026670 : CAMBODIA Reach Dom Keo, Battambang province - Young girl works tending the family cows.
00026669 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Woman washing dishes in filthy, polluted water in front of her slum home.
00026668 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen playing golf.
00026667 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen playing golf.
00026666 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Traditional Khmer dance school
00026665 : CAMBODIA - Child labour. Boy carrying stones in a quarry. He works with his family who earn a dollar a day breaking stones to sell.
00026664 : CAMBODIA Battambang province - Child labour. Boy working at a quarry breaking stones for construction and road building.
00026663 : CAMBODIA - Woman cooking on an open fire outside her home.
00026662 : CAMBODIA Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh - Photographs on the wall of Tuol Sleng museum, formerly the S-21 Khmer Rouge detention centre, where over 16,000 inmates were killed between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer photographed every prisoner before they were killed.
00026661 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Child labour. A young girl works collecting metal and plastic from the city's main rubbish dump.
00026660 : CAMBODIA Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh - Photograph on the wall of Tuol Sleng museum, formerly the S-21 Khmer Rouge detention centre, where over 16,000 inmates were killed between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer photographed every prisoner before they were killed.
00026659 : CAMBODIA Battambang province - Young HIV positive couple.
00026658 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Child labour. A young boy works collecting metal and plastic from the city's main rubbish dump.
00026657 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Woman shopping in the market.
00026656 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Child labour. A young boy working with a railway maintenance crew.
00026655 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Street child
00026654 : CAMBODIA - Slum family dressed up on their day off.
00026653 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Street children begging at night.
00026652 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Chinese men visiting a brothel.
00026651 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Girls line up at a brothel in the slums of the capital.
00026650 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - A girl balances on a flimsy bridge over a polluted and flooded alley in the capital's slums.
00026649 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - View through the window of a brothel in a slum area in the capital.
00026648 : CZECH REPUBLIC Most - Heavy industry on the outskirts of the city, looking from the old town out over the apartment blocks built during the communist era.
00026647 : CZECH REPUBLIC Most - Boy preparing to fly a kite against the backdrop of Most's heavy industry.
00026646 : CZECH REPUBLIC Prague - Statue in the old town.
00026645 : DENMARK Glaeno - Calves graze in a conservation area near the beach.
00026644 : DENMARK Koskilde - Farmer holding a handful of wheat.
00026643 : DENMARK - Demolition team.
00026642 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Homeless man sleeping in a doorway.
00026641 : DENMARK Copenhagen - The HC Orsted power station
00026640 : DENMARK Istegade, Copenhagen - Female muslim migrant in the capital.
00026639 : DENMARK Vesterbro, Copenhagen - Somali woman at an ATM machine.
00026638 : DENMARK - Daughter caring for her 85 year old mother who suffers from Alzheimers disease.
00026637 : DENMARK - 85 year old woman suffering from Alzheimers disease.
00026636 : DENMARK - Daughter caring for her 85 year old mother who suffers from Alzheimers disease.
00026635 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Dan Tyrel cafe at night
00026634 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Busy street at rush hour.
00026633 : DENMARK Oresund - Danes and Swedes on the Oresund bridge linking Denmark and Sweden just before its offical opening. The bridge is 16 kilometres long and is the first time the two countries have been linked since the ice age.
00026632 : DENMARK Midtfyns - Fans at a conert during the Midtfyns Festival.
00026631 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Street scene.
00026630 : DENMARK Odense - Young punks
00026629 : DENMARK - Water treatment plant.
00026628 : DENMARK - Water flowing out of a tap.
00026627 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Teenagers
00026626 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Children with a mobile phone.
00026625 : DENMARK - Single tree in the middle of a ploughed field.
00026624 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Children playing near old houses in Christiania.
00026623 : DENMARK Christiana, Copenhagen - Hash (marijuana) for sale in Christiania.
00026622 : DENMARK Christiana, Copenhagen - Selling pre-rolled joints.
00026621 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Portrait of the architect, Daniel Libeskind.
00026620 : DENMARK Cophenhagen - Children playing near old houses in Christiania.
00026619 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Portrait of the architect, Daniel Libeskind.
00026618 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Rwandan Hutu refugees in Goma refugee camp. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00026617 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma - Rwandan Hutu refugees in Goma refugee camp. The Hutu dominated regime in Rwanda had been defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including the perpetrators of the genocide and the defeated army, had flooded into DR Congo (then known as Zaire).
00026616 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - A Finnish photojournalist photographs Rwandan Hutu refugees in Goma refugee camp. The man lying in the middle of the picture is dying from cholera. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00026615 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Red Cross workers register orphaned, lost and abandoned Rwandan refugee children at Goma refugee camp. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00026614 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Red Cross team distributing food aid to Rwandan Hutu refugees at Goma refugee camp. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00026613 : HUNGARY - Women waiting for the bus outside Ungarn's steel rolling mill.
00026612 : HUNGARY - Steel rolling mill.
00026611 : HUNGARY - Dairy cattle next to an oil refinery.
00026610 : HUNGARY Budapest - Bathing pool at Szechenyi spa - the water is a constant 32 degrees.
00026609 : HUNGARY - Family home in the shadow of a steel rolling mill.
00026608 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Teenage Palestinian girls in school.
00026607 : HUNGARY Budapest - Butcher's stall in the market.
00026606 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Orthodox jews (father and son) in the old city.
00026605 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Hebron, West Bank - Camel's head for sale at a butcher in a Palestinian market.
00026604 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - School outing from one of the Jewish settlemnent in the West Bank touring the old city near the Wailing Wall. Their teacher carries a rifle even in Jerusalem.
00026603 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Palestinian girls in school.
00026602 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Orthodox jews in the old city.
00026601 : MALAWI - Young girl collecting water from the village well.
00026600 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Orthodox jew praying in the Mount of Olives cemetery.
00026599 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Homeless child sleeping in the street.
00026598 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Filipino girls outside a sex club in the city.
00026597 : PHILIPPINES Manila - A paralysed homeless street child begging in the street.
00026596 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Homeless street kid.
00026595 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Streetchildren sniffing glue in the street.
00026594 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Traffic jams in the centre of the city.
00026593 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Boy from a homeless family makes money recycling plastic from the beach.
00026592 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Homeless family living near the beach
00026591 : POLAND Katowice - Poor family living in a slum area near the coal mine where the father works.
00026590 : POLAND Katowice - Worker in the steel rollling mill.
00026589 : POLAND Katowice - Sun setting over Katowice's industry.
00026588 : POLAND Katowice - Roma gypsy woman begging with her baby.
00026587 : POLAND Krakow - Grim communist era housing blocks.
00026586 : POLAND Katowice - Old man collecting cardboard in the street
00026585 : POLAND Krakow - Old man begging in the street
00026584 : POLAND Katowice - Housing next to heavy industry.
00026583 : POLAND Katowice - Heavy industry.
00026582 : POLAND Katowice - Street scene
00026581 : POLAND - Father and son travelling home on their hay cart after a day working in the fields.
00026580 : THAILAND Chiang Rai, Chiang Khong - Indigenous Mong hill tribe woman.
00026579 : THAILAND Bangkok - Thai woman talking on her mobile phone.
00026578 : THAILAND Chaing Rai, Chang Khong - Indigenous Mong hill tribe woman.
00026577 : THAILAND - 15 year old girl working as a prostitute in a small village brothel. Her two sisters also work here.
00026576 : THAILAND Bangkok - Crowded road with the Bangkok Skytrain lines above it.
00026575 : THAILAND - Family working in a rice field in north Thailand
00026574 : THAILAND Bangkok - European men talking to women in a bar in the red light district. Many of the women who work here are prostitutes.
00026573 : THAILAND Bangkok - Child prostitute in the red light district.
00026572 : THAILAND Bangkok - Street child selling flowers.
00026571 : THAILAND Bangkok - Family living is shacks next to the railway line.
00026570 : THAILAND Bangkok - Boys working as prostitutes in the red light district.
00026569 : THAILAND Bangkok - A strip joint in the red light district.
00026568 : THAILAND - Scene in a small town brothel.
00026567 : THAILAND - 15 year old girl working as a prostitute in a brothel in the north of the country.
00026566 : THAILAND Bangkok - Prostitutes in a brothel wear numbers so that punters can choose who they want from behind a glass partition.
00026565 : TURKEY Istanbul - Street food stall.
00026564 : TURKEY Istanbul - Market stalls beside the Bosphorus river.
00026563 : TURKEY Istanbul - Businessman smoking on his way home from work.
00026562 : TURKEY Istanbul - Antiques stall.
00026561 : TURKEY Istanbul - Child street trader being attacked by other street traders.
00026560 : UNITED KINGDOM London - Close up of extra hot chilli peppers
00026559 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Street food stall beneath a communist mural.
00026558 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Rare pickled snakes for sale in a Chinese medicine shop.
00026557 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Flag seller in the market.
00026556 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Selling rare stuffed animals at a Chinese medicine shop.
00026555 : BRAZIL - Felled mahogany logs awaiting collection on Tucurui artificial lake.
00026554 : NIGERIA - Child playing traditional drum.
00026553 : NIGERIA Kano - Girl in the market.
00026552 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Loading and unloading of goods on to trucks in the dockside area near the Howrah Bridge.
00026551 : TURKEY - The Karakaya dam on the Euphrates river.
00026550 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Anglo-Indian architecture in the historic Dalhousie Square (now BBD Bagh) area of the city, with old signage for the Standard Life Assurance Company.
00026549 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - View of the Hooghly River from the Millennium Park, with a statue in the foreground and the new Howrah Bridge in the background.
00026548 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Bollywood film posters.
00026547 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - People passing anti-war graffiti castigating US president George Bush.
00026546 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Early morning street scene with advertising billboard for insurance.
00026545 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Communist graffiti.
00026544 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Early morning exercises in the Maidan.
00026543 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - The new Howrah Bridge over the Hooghly river.
00026542 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - A homeless man sleeps under communist slogans.
00026541 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Hindu pilgrims on their way to the Gangar Sagar Mela (at the mouth of the Ganges) sitting in a petrol station.
00026540 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Queue of Ambassador cars at a taxi rank.
00026539 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Muslim schoolgirls on a ride at an amusement park on the eastern fringe of the city.
00026538 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Man under the new Howrah Bridge.
00026537 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - A man reads a newspaper pinned up on the street. Beneath him, a homeless man sleeps.
00026536 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Taxis passing grand old buildings.
00026535 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Mother and child in a park.
00026534 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Bollywood film posters.
00026533 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Trader passing a sleeping homeless man.
00026532 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Pilgrims gathering to go to the Ganga Sagar Mela at the mouth of the Ganges.
00026531 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Schoolgirls.
00026530 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Porters carrying goods across the Howrah bridge.
00026529 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - A Hindu pilgrim on his way to the Ganga Sagar Mela at the mouth of the Ganges.
00026528 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - A rickshaw pulls a man with an awkward load.
00026527 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Taxi passing images celebrating Mahatma Gandhi.
00026526 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - The 'Science City' educational amusement park on the eastern fringe of the city.
00026525 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Washing beside the Hooghly River, near the Howrah Bridge.
00026524 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - The Victoria Memorial.
00026523 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Cell in the Tuol Sleng museum, formerly the S-21 Khmer Rouge detention centre, where over 16,000 inmates were killed between 1975 and 1979.
00026522 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Washing beside the Hooghly River, near the Howrah Bridge.
00026482 : NIGER Say - Children improvising toys from old tyres in this community beside the river Niger.
00026481 : NIGER Bagangata Barkire - Women winnowing millet. In the background they are breaking up the millet heads by pounding them to prepare the grain for winnowing.
00026480 : NIGER Karma - These three boys tend an entire rice field by themselves. Since half the population of Niger is under 15 years old children make up a significant proportion of the labour force. In Karma boys trudge along the dirt roads to the fields at the crack of dawn carrying hoes and shovels.
00026479 : NIGER Agadez - Mothers with their babies in hospital. Hospitals are generally poorly equipped, staffed with underpaid doctors and villagers must make long trips into cities like Agadez if they want to find a hospital like the one in the photo. Infant mortality rates in Niger are the third highest in the world.
00026478 : NIGER Bangol Karey - Children working in a millet field.
00026477 : NIGER Karma - Women carrying giant clay pots on the riverbanks of the river Niger.
00026476 : NIGER Niamey - A malnourished child is treated in a hospital in Niamey. Niger has the third highest infant mortaility rate in the world.
00026475 : NIGER Say - Bathing in an irrgation canal fed by the river Niger.
00026474 : NIGER Bagangata Barkire - Men bathing in the river Niger.
00026473 : NIGER Saga - Houses of Zarma and Songhai people outside Niamey. Each tribe in the region has its own distinctive housing.
00026472 : NIGER Kirtachi - Before wading through a flooded road near the river Niger, these women hitch up their skirts and carry their slippers in their hands.
00026471 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) men dancing at the Cure Salee (Salt Cure) festival.
00026470 : NIGER Karma - Women collecting water from the river NIger.
00026469 : NIGER Niamey - Men water their vegetable plots with water drawn from the river Niger.
00026468 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) man made up and dressed for the Gerewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026467 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) man made up and dressed for the Gerewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026466 : NIGER Bagangata Barkire - A boy herds his family's herd of Zebu cattle next to the river Niger. Zebu and goats are ideally suited to the hot, harsh climate and provide essential proteins and milk to the diet.
00026465 : NIGER Bagangata Barkire - Girls wash their family's aluminum pots on the riverbanks of the river Niger. Women and girls spend a large portion of the day at the river's edge.
00026464 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) people dancing at the Gerewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026463 : NIGER Bagangata Barkire - Women struggle to walk home during a desert storm near the river Niger.
00026462 : NIGER Sakey - Children shepherding their herd of goats through a pond. In addition to the steady deforestation overgrazing is the other major threat to the fragile savanna in the south of Niger.
00026461 : NIGER Tillaberi - Bozo children (an ethnic subgroup of the Songhai) standing on fishing boats moored in the river Niger. The Bozo have traditionally made their living from fishing.
00026460 : NIGER Saga - Children carrying firewood home. 95% of the fuel in Niger is wood although ironically Niger has a fifth of the world's uranium deposits.
00026459 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Camel and their riders at the Cure Salee (Salt Cure) festival. The nomadic Peul (Fulani), Tubu and Tuaregs follow the rains and wells around the Sahel and Sahara throughout the year. At the end of the rainy season they celebrate the arrival of their herds at the salty grasses near Ingall, salt being crucial to the survival of their herds.
00026458 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) men made up and dressed for the Gorewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026457 : NIGER Bangol Kuarey - Children playing in the river Niger.
00026456 : NIGER Kollo - Pirogues moored on the river Niger.
00026455 : NIGER Dounguel - Muslim men praying in a haricot bean field near the river Niger.
00026454 : NIGER Lossa - A man carries a ghetto blaster radio past children sheltering under a tree from the midday sun.
00026453 : NIGER Kirtachi - Old men sitting on the edge of the market in Kirtachi.
00026452 : NIGER Agadez - Koranic school in Agadez.
00026451 : NIGER Kirtachi - A young agricultural family show off their Zebu cattle. Families in the region are very young with mothers and fathers in their late teens or early twenties.
00026450 : NIGER Say - Children running with firewood on their heads near Say on the riverbanks of the river Niger.
00026449 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - A crowd at the Cure Salee (Salt Cure) festival. The nomadic Peul (Fulani), Tubu and Tuaregs follow the rains and wells around the Sahel and Sahara throughout the year. At the end of the rainy season they celebrate the arrival of their herds at the salty grasses near Ingall, salt being crucial to the survival of their herds.
00026448 : NIGER Nr. Tahoua - Grain stores on the edge of the village. Granaries are second only to mosques in terms of their architectural elegance and size.
00026447 : NIGER Niamey - Children writing on a blackboard in a school funded by a Swiss NGO (non governmental organisation).
00026446 : NIGER Sona - Migrating birds from Europe compete with native birds for space to build nests in this tree near the riverbanks of the river Niger.
00026445 : NIGER Karma - Farmers plant rice in irrigated fields near the river Niger.
00026444 : NIGER Tahoua - Grain stores on the edge of the village. These granaries serve the same function as banks, holding the village's 'currency' of grains. Granaries are second only to mosques in terms of their architectural elegance and size.
00026443 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) men made up and dressed for the Gorewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026442 : NIGER Nr. Ingall - Wodaabe (Bororo) people dancing at the Gerewol festival. The Gerewol festival is a male beauty contest whose function is first and foremost a marriage market.
00026441 : HAITI - Beach scene west of Jacmel on the south coast.
00026440 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A voodoo priest shows off his snakes at the Haitian Carnival.
00026439 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police detain a man suspected of looting during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026438 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police detain suspected looters during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026437 : HAITI Petit Goaves - Marie Therese, 48, holds a picture of her son Mikael, killed in a drive-by shooting shortly after Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti. Flanked by her daughters, Yolene and Minogues, she sits outside the casualty ward at The Hospital of Our Lady. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026436 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A pro-Aristide militiaman shot in the back by an unknown assailant just after the news that the disgraced president had left the country. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency, law and order all but broke down.
00026435 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A man's body lies unclaimed in the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince. He was executed during the violent rebellion in the days just prior to Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigning the presidency and fleeing into exile.
00026434 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Rubbish rotting in Cite Soleil, the city's poorest slum.
00026433 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Barricades set up by pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres') who were looting and terrorising passers-by. Law and order broke down in the midst of a violent rebellion against Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A few days later he resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026432 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A victim of an extrajudicial execution lies by the side of the road in the Carrefour district on the southern outskirts of the city. Four other bodies lie close by. In the midst of a violent rebellion against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, dozens of people were executed in this fashion by pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres'). A few days later he resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026431 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Rebels under the command of Guy Philippe move into the capital city, taking up key positions such as at the former national museum. A few days earlier Jean-Bertrand Aristide had resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026430 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Dancers in carnival procession.
00026429 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A man covered in fake blood to illustrate the terror of slavery marches in a carnival procession.
00026428 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A victim of an extrajudicial execution lies outside the General Hospital. In the midst of a violent rebellion against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, dozens of people were executed in this fashion by pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres'). A few days later he resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026427 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - The bodies of three pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres') executed by a mob. A day earlier, following a violent rebellion, Jean-Bertrand Aristide had resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026426 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A victim of an extrajudicial execution lies outside the General Hospital. In the midst of a violent rebellion against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, dozens of people were executed in this fashion by pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres'). A few days later he resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026425 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A vigilante aims at a suspected looter in the wealthy suburb of Petionville, on the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure. The man in his sights happened to be passing a petrol station and was probably guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Seconds later he was shot dead. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026424 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A victim of an extrajudicial execution lies outside the General Hospital. In the midst of a violent rebellion against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, dozens of people were executed in this fashion by pro-Aristide militiamen (so-called 'chimeres'). A few days later he resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026423 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - On the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, police join forces with vigilantes to search a petrol station in the wealthy suburb of Petionville for suspected looters. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026422 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - On the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, police join forces with vigilantes to search a petrol station in the wealthy suburb of Petionville for suspected looters. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026421 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Vigilantes detain a suspected looter in the wealthy suburb of Petionville, on the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026420 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - On the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, a suspected looter lies dead in the gutter and a couple cower against a wall. The dead man happened to be passing a petrol station in the wealthy suburb of Petionville and was probably guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Seconds later he was shot dead by a vigilante. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026419 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Rubbish rots on the streets of the capital city.
00026418 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Vigilantes detain a suspected looter in the wealthy suburb of Petionville, on the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure. In the midst of a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026417 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - On the day of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure, celebrations break out in the streets of the wealthy suburb of Petionville. Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile following a violent rebellion.
00026416 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines landing in a helicopter in front of the Presidential Palace. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026415 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A pro-Aristide militiaman shot in the back by an unknown assailant just after the news that the disgraced president had left the country. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency, law and order all but broke down.
00026414 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines arriving by helicopter at the Presidential Palace. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026413 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A pro-Aristide militiaman shot in the back by an unknown assailant just after the news that the disgraced president had left the country. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency, law and order all but broke down.
00026412 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police patrolling the streets looking for looters during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026411 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A week after the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, anti-Aristide demonstrators march from the wealthy suburb of Petionville into the centre of the city, accompanied by rebel forces. Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile following a violent rebellion.
00026410 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026409 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026408 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026407 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026406 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026405 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines patrolling the streets. Following a violent rebellion which saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, American forces entered the country to restore order.
00026404 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police questioning suspected looters during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026403 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police patrolling the streets looking for looters during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026402 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police detain a suspected looter during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026401 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Police detain a suspected looter during the chaos surrounding the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following a violent rebellion which saw Aristide resign the presidency and flee into exile, law and order all but broke down.
00026400 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines searching for gunmen in the Poste Marchande district. A week after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile, a demonstration turned violent with at least six people shot and killed. American forces had entered the country to restore order.
00026399 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A week after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile, a demonstration by supporters of the anti-Aristide rebels passes beneath a propaganda billboard.
00026398 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines searching for gunmen in the Poste Marchande district. A week after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile, a demonstration turned violent with at least six people shot and killed. American forces had entered the country to restore order.
00026397 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines searching for gunmen in the Poste Marchande district. A week after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile, a demonstration turned violent with at least six people shot and killed. American forces had entered the country to restore order.
00026396 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Shooting breaks out as supporters of the anti-Aristide rebels stage a demonstration in the city centre. The gunfire is coming from the Bel Air district, a chimere (pro-Aristide militia) stronghold just up the street. Six people are killed. A week earlier Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026395 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - US Marines searching for gunmen in the Poste Marchande district. A week after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile, a demonstration turned violent with at least six people shot and killed. American forces had entered the country to restore order.
00026394 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A 23 year old student of engineering, one of six people killed while attending a demonstration by supporters of the anti-Aristide rebels. Shots were fired from the Bel Air district, a chimere (pro-Aristide militia) stronghold just up the street. A week earlier Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026393 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A man wounded while attending a demonstration by supporters of the anti-Aristide rebels. Shots were fired from the Bel Air district, a chimere (pro-Aristide militia) stronghold just up the street. Six people were killed. A week earlier Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned the presidency and fled into exile.
00026392 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Girls on the beach.
00026391 : KENYA Nairobi - Child being weighed in Kakuma refugee camp, which is home to Somali refugees.
00026390 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Waitress at a beach bar with fancy lighting.
00026389 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Two girls playing in the sea.
00026388 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - A young woman plays a racket game on the beach.
00026387 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - A girl is buried in the sand by her sister as they play on the beach.
00026386 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - View of the sea at sunset, with the minaret of a mosque in the foreground.
00026385 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A Palestinian man washes his horses in the sea off Gaza City.
00026384 : SUDAN - Sunday mass at the cathedral in Wau.
00026383 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - View of the beach.
00026382 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinian youths doing acrobatics on the beach.
00026381 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Bengali youths on Cable street.
00026380 : LITHUANIA - Lithuanian border guard monitoring traffic over the Nemunas river, which marks the border with Kaliningrad.
00026379 : LITHUANIA - Three generations of women from the Clostadoaris family eat lunch.
00026378 : LITHUANIA - As Lithuania prepares to join the European Union (EU), a couple celebrate with champagne as they look out towards Kaliningrad from the sun dial at Nida on the Curonian Spit.
00026377 : LITHUANIA Silute - On the last day before Lithuania joined the European Union (EU), a school parade passes through the town of Silute to mark the occasion.
00026376 : LITHUANIA - Man sewing potatoes in a field outside the village of Saugos.
00026375 : INDIA - Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), a community organisation which campaigns against the construction of a series of dams planned for the Narmada river.
00026374 : LITHUANIA - Fishermen from the port of Preila set out at 5.30am on Lithuania's first day as a member of the European Union (EU).
00026373 : NORWAY Oslo - Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi gives her acceptance speech during a ceremony at Oslo City Hall. The Iranian lawyer was given the award for her work for women and children's rights.
00026372 : NORWAY Oslo - Mullah Krekar, founder of the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam. Based in Iraqi Kurdistan, the group is believed to have ties to al Qaeda. Krekar has lived in Norway as a refugee for several years, but has been threatened with expulsion. The US authorities have described him as a terrorist financier and facilitator, and are alleged to have discussed carrying out an 'extraordinary rendition' on him involving a CIA snatch squad.
00026371 : NORWAY Oslo - Mullah Krekar, founder of the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam. Based in Iraqi Kurdistan, the group is believed to have ties to al Qaeda. Krekar has lived in Norway as a refugee for several years, but has been threatened with expulsion. The US authorities have described him as a terrorist financier and facilitator, and are alleged to have discussed carrying out an 'extraordinary rendition' on him involving a CIA snatch squad.
00026370 : NORWAY Oslo - Film actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones attend a ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at Oslo City Hall. The Iranian lawyer was given the award for her work for women and children's rights.
00026369 : BANGLADESH Sylhet - Mobile clinic treating leprosy patients living on tea estates.
00026368 : NORWAY Oslo - A ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at Oslo City Hall. The Iranian lawyer was given the award for her work for women and children's rights.
00026367 : COLOMBIA Medellin - Parque Bolivar in the centre of Medellin.
00026366 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The first day of proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. David Crane, chief prosecutor, enters the court.
00026365 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The first day of proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. Witness Al-Haji Lamin Jusajarka, who lost his hands during the civil war, is directed into the court by a security guard.
00026364 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The first day of proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. David Crane (centre), chief prosecutor, enters the court flanked by a member of his prosecution team (right) and a security official (left).
00026363 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The first day of proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. A UN soldier stands guard outside.
00026362 : KENYA Kibwezi - Women's co-operative adult education class.
00026361 : ZIMBABWE - Extended family in their home.
00026360 : GERMANY Berlin - Tourists pose for photographs next to statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Marx-Engels Platz.
00026359 : GERMANY Berlin - The city's main tram terminus in Hackescher Markt.
00026358 : GERMANY Berlin - An armed policeman guards the recently restored New Synagogue in the Mitte district.
00026357 : GERMANY Berlin - Bored passenger on a tram in Alexanderplatz.
00026356 : GERMANY Berlin - Construction of Peter Eisenmann's Berlin Memorial to Murdered Jews.
00026355 : GERMANY Berlin - A military unit poses for a photograph in front of the Reichstag, which houses the German Parliament.
00026354 : GERMANY Berlin - Graffiti on one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall.
00026353 : GERMANY Berlin - Restored and decaying buildings side-by-side in the Kreuzberg district.
00026352 : GERMANY Berlin - The Fernsehturm (Television Tower) in the former eastern sector of the city dominates the Berlin skyline.
00026351 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Jake and Dinos Chapman, prominent Young British Artists (so-called YBAs).
00026350 : BELGIUM Brussels, Flanders - Javier Solana, foreign policy high representative of the European Union (EU).
00026349 : BELGIUM Wallonia - Redu in the Belgian Ardennes, which has become known as a book town due to its 24 book shops.
00026348 : USA Louisburg, North Carolina, United States of America - Janet and Donald Burleson feed Tanto their 'seeing eye horse' a mint in the Coca Cola Cafe. Janet Burleson is training miniature horses for blind people to use instead of guide dogs because they live longer and are often more cautious animals.
00026347 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Cowgirl and cowboy Amy Seresa Elliott and Keith Wade kiss on horseback after a day of drinking whisky, beer and moonshine on a trail ride in Oxford.
00026346 : USA Louisburg, North Carolina, United States of America - Janet and Donald Burleson (left) with Tanto their 'seeing eye horse' in the Coca Cola Cafe. Janet Burleson is training miniature horses for blind people to use instead of guide dogs because they live longer and are often more cautious animals.
00026345 : USA Louisburg, North Carolina, United States of America - Janet and Donald Burleson take Tanto their 'seeing eye horse' out of the back seat of their car. Janet Burleson is training miniature horses for blind people to use instead of guide dogs because they live longer and are often more cautious animals.
00026344 : USA Louisburg, North Carolina, United States of America - Janet Burleson trains Tanto her 'seeing eye horse' to walk through the downtown shopping district in Louisburg. She is training miniature horses for blind people to use instead of guide dogs because they live longer and are often more cautious animals.
00026343 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Denise Strickland, centre, is healed by Pastor Dr. Atkinson and Evangelist Sylvia Watson in Long Branch Disciple Church in Newton Grove.
00026342 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Cowboys let their horses rest during a trail ride in Oxford.
00026341 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Cowboys Danny Haron, left, and Keith Wade 'shotgun' a beer during a heavy day of drinking and riding on a trail in Oxford.
00026340 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Cowboy Keith Wade 'shotguns' a beer during a heavy day of drinking and riding on a trail in Oxford.
00026339 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Denise Strickland, sitting, cries during a prayer at the Long Branch Disciple Church in Newton Grove.
00026338 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Pastor Dr. Atkinson (left) and Evangelist Sylvia Watson heal parishioner Ricky Williams Merritt at the Long Branch Disciple Church in Newton Grove.
00026337 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Denise Strickland is healed by Pastor Dr. Atkinson and Evangelist Sylvia Watson in Long Branch Disciple Church in Newton Grove.
00026336 : RWANDA Nr. Umutara - A policeman watches as a crowd gathers to see President Kagame speak in the village of Akavumeu.
00026335 : USA North Carolina, United States of America - Shelinda Hawkins is healed by Pastor Dr. Atkinson and Evangelist Sylvia Watson in Long Branch Disciple Church in Newton Grove.
00026334 : RWANDA Nr. Kagatumba - Woman hoeing a field in the village of Cyenbogo II.
00026333 : RWANDA Nr. Kagatumba - Women hoeing a field in the village of Cyenbogo II.
00026332 : KENYA Nairobi - Mandela Twilimuli sits in a classroom after all the other children have left, waiting for his teacher to drop him outside his house where he will wait for his mother to finish work.
00026331 : RWANDA Nr. Umutara - Children run home from school in the village of Akavumeu.
00026330 : KENYA Nairobi - Standard 7 students Paul Kirigano, left, and Josphat Oregeo study at the Mashimoni squatters' primary school in the Kibera slum. Although the Kenyan government has declared that all students are entitled to a free education, there are no government schools in Kibera where approximately 700,000 people live. Oxfam is supporting a local community organisation that has expanded the classrooms and reduced the fees that children must pay at Mashimoni along with two other schools in Kibera.
00026329 : KENYA Nairobi - Mandela Twilimuli sits in a classroom after all the other children have left, waiting for his teacher to drop him outside his house where he will wait for his mother to finish work.
00026328 : KENYA Nairobi - Amina, a pupil at the Mashimoni squatters' primary school in the Kibera slum. Although the Kenyan government has declared that all students are entitled to a free education, there are no government schools in Kibera where approximately 700,000 people live. Oxfam is supporting a local community organisation that has expanded the classrooms and reduced the fees that children must pay at Mashimoni along with two other schools in Kibera.
00026327 : KENYA Nairobi - Students listen to their teacher during a mathematics class at the SK Emmanuel primary school in the Kibera slum. Although the Kenyan government has declared that all students are entitled to a free education, there are no government schools in Kibera where approximately 700,000 people live. Oxfam is supporting a local community organisation that has expanded the classrooms and reduced the fees that children must pay at this school and two others in Kibera.
00026326 : KENYA Nairobi - Students sit in class at the SK Emmanuel primary school in the Kibera slum. Although the Kenyan government has declared that all students are entitled to a free education, there are no government schools in Kibera where approximately 700,000 people live. Oxfam is supporting a local community organisation that has expanded the classrooms and reduced the fees that children must pay at this school and two others in Kibera.
00026325 : KENYA Nairobi - Students sit in class at the SK Emmanuel primary school in the Kibera slum. Although the Kenyan government has declared that all students are entitled to a free education, there are no government schools in Kibera where approximately 700,000 people live. Oxfam is supporting a local community organisation that has expanded the classrooms and reduced the fees that children must pay at this school and two others in Kibera.
00026324 : KENYA - An AIDS and HIV educational lecture given by representatives of Marie Stopes during an outreach program in the village of Kisasi.
00026323 : KENYA Nairobi - Adida Adan and her son Hamidan stand inside their home in the slums of Kabira. She is originally a pastoralist from Somalia and came with her husband to Kabira when he got a job as a driver. Soon after they moved, he was killed in a car accident and she has been struggling to take care of her children in a community that is ridden by poverty and violence. Because her family are nomadic she cannot even return home, not knowing where they are.
00026322 : KENYA Nairobi - Mandela Twilimuli gets ready for school.
00026321 : KENYA - An AIDS and HIV educational lecture given by representatives of Marie Stopes during an outreach program in the village of Kisasi.
00026320 : KENYA Nairobi - Woman and baby at the largest Marie Stopes Kenya clinic in Eastleigh.
00026319 : KENYA Nr. Nairobi - A woman waits to have a Tubal Ligation (TL) operation as part of a Marie Stopes outreach program in a suburb of Umgata. The operations were offered for free to women who are not able to afford them but want to have the choice to plan a family.
00026318 : KENYA Nr. Nairobi - A woman waits to have a Tubal Ligation (TL) operation as part of a Marie Stopes outreach program in a suburb of Umgata. The operations were offered for free to women who are not able to afford them but want to have the choice to plan a family.
00026317 : KENYA Nairobi - Women being seen by a doctor at the largest Marie Stopes Kenya clinic in Eastleigh.
00026316 : ISRAEL - A man posing covered in mud at the Ein Gedi Spa on the Dead Sea.
00026315 : KENYA Nr. Nairobi - Tubal Ligation (TL) operation being performed by Doctor Dawit Araya as part of a Marie Stopes outreach program in a suburb of Umgata. The operations were offered for free to women who are not able to afford them but want to have the choice to plan a family.
00026314 : KENYA Nairobi - New born baby at the largest Marie Stopes Kenya clinic in Eastleigh.
00026313 : KENYA Nairobi - Women at the largest Marie Stopes Kenya clinic in Eastleigh.
00026312 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - A child with polio waits to leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026311 : INDIA Madhopur, Bihar - Children study in an open hut at the Kishori Kendra school.
00026310 : INDIA Madhopur, Bihar - Children study in an open hut at the Kishori Kendra school.
00026309 : INDIA Madhopur, Bihar - Children study in an open hut at the Kishori Kendra school.
00026308 : INDIA Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an overcrowded government school in the village of Quamruddinpur in Rampur block.
00026307 : INDIA Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an overcrowded government school in Naranpur village, Suriyawan block. Many of the children did not attend school until Unicef persuaded their parents of the benefits of a formal education.
00026306 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children wait to leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026305 : INDIA Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh - Boy fishing in a village in Suriyawan block.
00026304 : INDIA Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an overcrowded government school in a village in Suriyawan block. Many of the children did not attend school until Unicef persuaded their parents of the benefits of a formal education.
00026303 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children wait for classes to begin after lunch at Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026302 : INDIA Madhopur, Bihar - Children study in an open hut at the Kishori Kendra school.
00026301 : INDIA Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh - Suma, a girl from the village of Kotwa Dham, Sarauli Gauspur block.
00026300 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children in class at Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026299 : INDIA New Delhi - A man drinks tea on his roof next to power lines that have been hacked into to steal electricity.
00026298 : INDIA Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an overcrowded government school in Naranpur village, Suriyawan block. Many of the children did not attend school until Unicef persuaded their parents of the benefits of a formal education.
00026297 : INDIA Bhadohi District, Uttar Pradesh - Women's group meeting in a village in Suriyawan block.
00026296 : INDIA Madhopur, Bihar - Children study in an open hut at the Kishori Kendra school.
00026295 : INDIA Patna, Bihar - Dipika, a child from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') who suffers from mosquito bites and skin disorders because of poor hygiene, sits in a house set up to teach girls who are excluded from the mainstream education system.
00026294 : INDIA New Delhi - A mosque is silhouetted next to power lines that have been hacked into to steal electricity.
00026293 : INDIA Bihar - Children wait to leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026292 : INDIA Bihar - Children wait to leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026291 : INDIA Bihar - Children walking through rice fields in the village of Koprah.
00026290 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Girls learn to read at the Residential Camp School in Pahla Kadam. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026289 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Girls learn how to sew at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) which is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026288 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children wait for classes to begin after lunch at Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026287 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Punam hugs fellow teacher Sarosarat (wearing yellow) at the Residential Camp School in Pahla Kadam. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026286 : INDIA Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') gathers grass to feed cattle in the village of Koprah.
00026285 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Children from a family who lost their home to elephants wake up on the floor of a neighbour's house. Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans and throwing firecrackers to keep elephants away. As a result of deforestation, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026284 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Girls prepare dinner at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) which is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026283 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Sujata, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') learns to sew in a makeshift school in the village of Jamsout. Most of the girls are excluded form the educational system and this is their only opportunity to learn basic communication skills.
00026282 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - Girls ride their bikes home from the upper primary school in Kotwa Dham.
00026281 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') prepares food at her home in the village of Koprah.
00026280 : INDIA Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an overcrowded government school in the village of Quamruddinpur in Rampur block.
00026279 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - A girl rides her bike home from the upper primary school in Kotwa Dham.
00026278 : INDIA Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh - Boy with blackboard at a government school in the village of Quamruddinpur in Rampur block.
00026277 : INDIA Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') gathers water at a pump in the village of Koprah.
00026276 : INDIA Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh - Girl at an overcrowded government-run primary school in the village of Pindsawa in Nindura Block.
00026275 : INDIA Tiwaripur, Uttar Pradesh - Children attend an alternative learning centre in the village of Tiwaripur where they are taught using Unicef's "joyful learning technique".
00026274 : INDIA Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh - Guriya attends an overcrowded government school in the village of Quamruddinpur in Rampur block.
00026273 : INDIA Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') teaches other young girls mathematics in her village of Koprah. She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female from one of the lowest castes in India. She attended a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) against her father's will and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. The centre is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026272 : INDIA Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh - Girl at an overcrowded government-run primary school in the village of Pindsawa in Nindura Block.
00026271 : INDIA Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh - Boy with blackboard at a government school in the village of Quamruddinpur in Rampur block.
00026270 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Geeta, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') learns to read and write in a makeshift school in the village of Jamsout. Most girls of her caste are excluded from the education system and this is their only opportunity to learn basic communication skills.
00026269 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') teaches other young girls karate at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre). She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female from one of the lowest castes in India. She attended the centre against her father's will and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. The centre is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026268 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Lalita (with highest kick) a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') teaches other young girls karate at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre). She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female from one of the lowest castes in India. She attended the centre against her father's will and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. The centre is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026267 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Mukash lies on the back of a water buffalo.
00026266 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - A girl waits for classes to begin after lunch at Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026265 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Dev Muni, a girl from the village of Jamsout.
00026264 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Lalti teaches a young girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') how to sew in the village of Jamsout.
00026263 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Geeta, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') learns to read and write in a makeshift school in the village of Jamsout. Most girls of her caste are excluded from the education system and this is their only opportunity to learn basic communication skills.
00026262 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A man on a bicycle carries firewood taken from forests near the Kaziranga National Park. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by massive deforestation and encroachment on reserved land and natural forests. As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026261 : INDIA Gorapatti, Uttar Pradesh - Nilmali (centre) and other members of a women's self-help group talk to Unicef workers who helped set up the organisation in the village of Pran Pura.
00026260 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - Boy in the upper primary school in Kotwa Dham, Sarauli Gauspur block.
00026259 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Lal Mati, a young woman from the village of Jamsout.
00026258 : INDIA Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') teaches other young girls mathematics in her village of Koprah. She has overcome great barriers in a society that regards her as the most disadvantaged since she is a female from one of the lowest castes in India. She attended a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) against her father's will and learned how to read, write and defend herself in a community which frequently abuses women. The centre is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026257 : INDIA New Delhi - A farmer planting crops in his field.
00026256 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Sasi Srivasto teaches girls at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026255 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Sarosarot shows girls where India is on the globe at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026254 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Pinky, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters'), in a makeshift school in the village of Jamsout. Most girls of her caste are excluded from the education system and this is their only opportunity to learn basic communication skills.
00026253 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Girl at the Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026252 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Lalti teaches a young girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') how to count and write in the village of Jamsout. Most girls of her caste are excluded from the education system and this is their only opportunity to learn basic communication skills.
00026251 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Teacher and pupils at the Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026250 : INDIA Assam - A domestic elephant is brought for a veterinary check-up at a rescue centre near the Kaziranga National Park. The domesticated elephants are still being used to clear forests illegally.
00026249 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - Primata, a girl in Kotwa Dham, Sarauli Gauspur block.
00026248 : INDIA Nr. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - Geeta, who had to give her son to a carpet trader in order to take a loan out to save her sick husband, speaks at a meeting in the village of Gaharwari Bhiti. The women's small loans program allowed her to get out of debt and rescue her son.
00026247 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Girl studying at the Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026246 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Girl studying at the Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026245 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Girls play outside a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre). The centre is funded by the World Bank although it was initially started by Unicef.
00026244 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Girl studying at the Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026243 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Villagers perform a puja (holy ceremony) to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant, to ask him for protection from real elephants. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026242 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Wild elephants are trapped inside a tea estate as police and forest rangers attempt to drive them out of surrounding villages into a forest reserve. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026241 : INDIA Koprah, Bihar - Residents of the village of Koprah.
00026240 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Villagers perform a puja (holy ceremony) to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant, to ask him for protection from real elephants. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026239 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - A remote area inside an Assamese national park, where man has been encroaching on reserved land, causing deforestation as the land is cleared for agriculture. Forestry officials chase them off the land but they come back almost immediately.
00026238 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Villagers perform a puja (holy ceremony) to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant, to ask him for protection from real elephants. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026237 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Villagers perform a puja (holy ceremony) to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant, to ask him for protection from real elephants. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026236 : INDIA Assam - Elephants in Kaziranga National Park.
00026235 : INDIA Assam - Tourists on the back of an elephant pursue a one-horned rhino in Kaziranga National Park.
00026234 : INDIA Assam - A one-horned rhino in Kaziranga National Park.
00026233 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Hundreds of villagers banging tin drums, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant of just a few days old was separated from its mother, but later taken to a rescue centre.
00026232 : INDIA Assam - Veterinary clinic for elephants in Sonitpur district.
00026231 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Elephants feeding at a veterinary clinic in Sonitpur district.
00026230 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Landscape on the Brahmaputra river.
00026229 : INDIA Assam - Mahoots - elephant keepers - take care of domesticated elephants in Kaziranga National Park.
00026228 : INDIA Sonitpur district, Assam - Forest ranger with his rifle.
00026227 : INDIA Assam - Elephants play in Kaziranga National Park.
00026226 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - A remote area inside an Assamese national park, where man has been encroaching on reserved land, causing deforestation as the land is cleared for agriculture. Forestry officials chase them off the land but they come back almost immediately.
00026225 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - A remote area inside an Assamese national park, where man has been encroaching on reserved land, causing deforestation as the land is cleared for agriculture. Forestry officials chase them off the land but they come back almost immediately.
00026224 : INDIA Koprah, Bihar - A woman feeds her cows.
00026223 : INDIA Assam - An elephant in Kaziranga National Park.
00026222 : INDIA Assam - An elephant in Kaziranga National Park.
00026221 : INDIA Assam - Mahoots - elephant keepers - play football on elephant-back in preparation for the annual Elephant Festival which is held to raise awareness and appreciation for the animals who are facing grave problems as their habitat shrinks. These domesticated elephants live in Kaziranga National Park, visited by thousands of tourists each year.
00026220 : INDIA Assam - Mahoots - elephant keepers - play football on elephant-back in preparation for the annual Elephant Festival which is held to raise awareness and appreciation for the animals who are facing grave problems as their habitat shrinks. These domesticated elephants live in Kaziranga National Park, visited by thousands of tourists each year.
00026219 : INDIA Assam - A domesticated elephant in Kaziranga National Park.
00026218 : INDIA Assam - A mahoot - elephant keeper - with a domesticated elephant in Kaziranga National Park.
00026217 : INDIA Assam - Mahoots - elephant keepers - play football on elephant-back in preparation for the annual Elephant Festival which is held to raise awareness and appreciation for the animals who are facing grave problems as their habitat shrinks. These domesticated elephants live in Kaziranga National Park, visited by thousands of tourists each year.
00026216 : INDIA Assam - Wild elephants are trapped inside a tea estate as police and forest rangers attempt to drive them out of surrounding villages into a forest reserve. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026215 : INDIA Assam - A domesticated elephant is brought for a check-up at a veterinary clinic near Kaziranga National Park. Elephants like these are used to clear forests illegally.
00026214 : INDIA Assam - A domesticated elephant is brought for a check-up at a veterinary clinic near Kaziranga National Park. Elephants like these are used to clear forests illegally.

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