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joana, twenty-six years old. living in portugal.

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August 21, 2010 - Muzaffargarh, Punjab, Pakistan

A boy carries water through a flooded yard, prior to prayers and the breaking of the fast in the month of Ramadan.

Pakistan Floods, Daniel Berehulak

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January 26, 2010 - Port-au-Prince, Haiti 

A woman stands beside her tent, at a camp on a golf course in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville.

Earthquake in Haiti, Olivier Laban-Mattei

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January 19, 2010 - Port-au-Prince, Haiti 

Armante Cherisma cries over the body of her 15-year-old daughter Fabienne, killed when police opened fire on looters in Port-au-Prince.

Earthquake in Haiti, Olivier Laban-Mattei

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March 5, 2010 - Boroma, Somalia 

Exhausted men sleep in the desert after traveling all night on muddy roads and in pouring rain. Every year, thousands of people risk their lives crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen to escape conflict and poverty in the Horn of Africa.

Escape from Somalia, Ed Ou

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February 14, 2012

A girl mourns her father, killed by pro-government Shabiha militia and left on the street, in Al-Qusayr.

Syria Under Siege, Alessio Romenzi

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Badakhshan, Afghanistan - August 15, 2012 

A man puffs opium smoke into the face of an infant in northern Afghanistan. In some areas parents do this to help children to sleep, but the children end up addicted.

Life in War, Majid Saeedi

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People displaced by the conflict in Syria stay in improvised shelters in the gymnasium of an abandoned school. The school served as a reception center, providing temporary accommodation for newly arrived refugees.

Temporary Accommodation, Alessandro Penso

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A man bringing home a sheep for the Eid feast smokes a cigarette, as traffic finally clears at the Kalandia checkpoint, August 7, 2013.

Occupied Pleasures, Tanya Habjouqa

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A woman tries to escape from the Galkayo Mental Health Centre, May 21, 2011.

War and Mental Health After Crisis, Robin Hammond

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Gaza Conflict, Sergey Ponomarev

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Cotton Workers, Tanzania

David Chancellor

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An injured girl stands in a makeshift hospital following shelling and airstrikes, August 22, 2015

Douma’s Children, Abd Doumany

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Yemen,

The Cost of War, Alex Potter

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Central African Republic

On est ensemble, Camille Lepage

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Jennifer Emerling

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The playground, Felicia Simion

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Mali

Africa, Tara Rice