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  • Elisabeth, 62, a woman living in the area of Heideveld, Cape Town, RSA, since about 40 years is scared to go out even during the day because of street gun-fight. She runs a little vegetable shop with her husband, Thomas, 64, in their house. She is portrayed while behind the gate of her house in Heideveld. They acknowledge the fact that thanks to the large police station not far from their house thing are slowly getting better, but also that law enforcement is probably not the right long-term way to curb crime, gangs and drug addiction. They favour development and education for the kids but till now the government of South Africa has promoted a effectual policy towards the area of Heideveld. Police incapacity to control the gang problem has also led to the increase of vigilante groups activity, people that feeling threatened to live in their own community has engaged a fight to the gangs on their own, often creating more hatred and dissent. With extremely high rates of unemployment, poor resources and too little authority control, ghettos as Heideveld are the best places for gangs to grow in activity and businesses. Targeting mostly young people from their area to carry on the 'dirty job', gangs in the Western Cape, and South Africa are an endemic problem in continuous increase in the years after the radical apartheid governmental system. 'Coloured' communities have lost almost all their help from a government that now is concentrated on empowering black communities instead. Segregated into ghettos and without state grants or development activities, people in these community are sometimes forced to join a gang or dealing drugs also to provide for their own family.
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  • A young woman is covering her eyes during a sandstorm, in the heavily polluted city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, the largest leather production hub in India.
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  • A Bedouin woman is looking for reusable material from a rubbish site on the back of her family's house, in the Bedouin city of Rahat, close to BeerSheva, the capital of the Negev, a large deserted area in the south of Israel. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Governmental policies. The seven Bedouin towns already built are all between the 10 more impoverished towns in Israel...
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  • A Japanese woman belonging to the maintenance and restoration team in Bamiyan is working on emergency fixtures on the walls of an ancient Buddhist cave on the premises of the archaeological site. The Japanese team of experts has been visiting the town for various years to find a long-term solution to its slow but unceasing disappearance. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Pictures of Cecileís graduation and master degree are hanging from the wall in her living room on Sunday, 10 June, 2006, in Camden Town, London, England. Cecile, 31, a French woman from Avignon, lives in London since 14 years and is one of the members in the Vampyre Connexion committee. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric.**ItalyOut**
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  • Woman crossing the road at Oxford Circus, in central London, one of the busiest areas of the city, on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Woman in a taxi cab by the ëNike Towní shop, in London, on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004.  On the shopís window is the picture of British athlete Paula Radcliffe, the marathon worldís record holder. She finished fourth at the last Olympic games held in Athens after a spectator grabbed her during the run. Getting home by taxi is a good alternative to the Christmas shopping stress. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Woman waiting at the traffic lights by the shop of the Italian firm ëBenettoní, in Oxford Circus, central London, on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004.  **ITALY OUT**
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  • A woman takes a break out of a shop of the famous Spanish firm ëZaraí whilst the husband is waiting to pay in  Oxford Circus, London, , on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. **ITALY OUT**
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  • A woman is posing behind a stand selling bondage tape at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • A young woman is putting on some tights at one of the exhibitors' stands selling sexy lingerie at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • A Japanese woman belonging to the maintenance and restoration team in Bamiyan is working on emergency fixtures on the walls of an ancient Buddhist cave on the premises of the archaeological site. The Japanese team of experts has been visiting the town for various years to find a long-term solution to its slow but unceasing disappearance. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_Alex_Masi013.JPG
  • An Afghan woman is walking through a field of blossoming flowers in Bamiyan, a small Afghan town mostly populated by Hazaras. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_Alex_Masi002.JPG
  • Youngsters on the streets of the impoverished neighbourhood of Heideveld, Cape Town, RSA. Francis, a woman living in the area from 40 years is on the back; she has witnessed and has been threatened by the wave of violence affecting these communities. Her grandson, who was part of a gang in the area has been shot three times in front of her house by the common drive-by-shootings carried on by rival gangs in the neighbouring areas. Being in so close contact with members of gangs and criminal activity, youngsters are those who are most tempted to join a gang, which most of the time is also probably composed by friends and others living in the community. Making errands or favours to gang members is also common to the younger kids in these areas which are lured by the apparently easy gains deriving from the activity.  With extremely high rates of unemployment, poor resources and too little authority control, ghettos as Heideveld are the best places for gangs to grow in activity and businesses. Targeting mostly young people from their area to carry on the 'dirty job', gangs in the Western Cape, and South Africa are an endemic problem in continuous increase in the years after the radical apartheid governmental system. 'Coloured' communities have lost almost all their help from a government that now is concentrated on empowering black communities instead. Segregated into ghettos and without state grants or development activities, people in these communities are sometimes forced to join a gang or dealing drugs also to provide for their own family. Young gangster are also used for the worst crimes by the fact that, being still under 18 years old, they would face shorter sentences if caught. Drug abuse between kids as young as 12 is not uncommon, especially crystal meth, mandrax and marijuana.
    Marvin_Gangster_Redemption_14.JPG
  • An elderly woman is bargaining the price of her vegetables with a local shop owner in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, on Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008. As contamination endanger the yield of the fields, a large agricultiural country like India cannot keep up with production and demand thus fuelling the latest food inflation crises that has sparked riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and that has already plunged 100 millions people into poverty worldwide.
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  • Cecile, 31, a French woman from Avignon, and one of the members in the Vampyre Connexion committee, is fitting his boots in her bedroom before a long day out with the group, on Sunday, 10 June, 2007, in Camden Town, London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric.**ItalyOut**
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  • Cecile, 31, a French woman from Avignon, and one of the members in the Vampyre Connexion committee, is standing in her living room on Sunday, 15 October, 2006, in Camden Town, London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric. **ItalyOut**
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  • Woman looking at a window in Piccadilly Street, central London, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. During Christmas the luxury windows displayed all around the West End are the perfect attraction for tourists and shopping-lovers. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Young woman entering ëHouse of Freiserí shopping mall, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004.  **ITALY OUT**
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  • A woman and a child holding a snake during the snake Procession of Cocullo, one of the oldest pagan Christian celebrations still held today in Italy, on Thursday, May 5, 2005. Saint Domenico, the peculiar Saint of the event, was thought to protect from and heal snake bites. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Pooja, 14, a student from the village of Pathpuri, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India, taking part to the children's journal, a project launched by Dalit Sangh, an NGO which has been working for the uplift of scheduled castes for the past 22 years, is showing a picture shot with a digital camera provided by the project to child reporters to a woman living in the village. Dalit Sangh is working in collaboration with Unicef India to promote education and awareness within backward communities.
    Child_Reporter_MP_India_Alex_Masi_18.jpg
  • Cecile, 31, a French woman from Avignon, and one of the members in the Vampyre Connexion committee, is showing her fangs on Sunday, 15 October, 2006, in her house in Camden Town, London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric.  **ItalyOut**
    VampiresLondon01.JPG
  • Palestinian woman crying in front of a Palestinian flag portraying a picture of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian Authority (PA) headquarter, last residence and burial site of Yasser Arafat, in the Palestinian capital Ramallah, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. Here a mausoleum and a museum in his honour will be built soon. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Palestinian woman taking part at the celebration for the first anniversary of the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Palestinian Authority (PA) headquarter, last residence and burial site of Yasser Arafat, in the Palestinian capital Ramallah, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. Here a mausoleum and a museum in his honour will be built soon. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Islamic woman weeping behind a poster of US President George W. Bush during an anti-war demonstration held in central London, UK, on Saturday, March 19, 2005. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Francis, 76 years old, a woman living since 40 years in the impoverished area of Heideveld, Cape Town, RSA. She thinks the situation is getting slowly better in the area compared with the lawlessness experienced during the 1980s. Her grandson, who was part of a gang in the area has been shot three times in front of her house by the common drive-by-shootings carried on by rival gangs in the neighbouring areas. She is scared to walk to the shops in Heideveld because she could find herself in the middle of a gunfight on the streets, but she also acquired some confidence after the government decided to build a large police station just on the area's outskirts. She laments the increasing problems due to drug dealing and abuse amongst the youngs and, like most of the people I spoke to, the soaring rate of unemployment. "If the government helps us with jobs then the situation would b better" she believes. The US style 'war on gangs' protracted since a few years by the government of South Africa is not showing its fruits; on the contrary, critics has been made to it for the excessive penalties suffered by alleged gang members that overburden an already instable prison system, whether in many advocate a better development and education policy and programmes, rather that an open fight, clarly ineffectual on the long-term. In the mainly 'coloured' area of  Heideveld, where unemployment is rife, gangs are flourishing.
    Marvin_Gangster_Redemption_18.JPG
  • A woman is trying a fancy mask in one of the exhibitors' stands at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • A young woman is performing pole dance by her stand, sponsoring 'Pole Addicts',at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • A woman is being evacuated to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying her to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. She was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van she was travelling on in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as she was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • Two women (left) dressed in traditional burka dresses are walking past a cart carrying brand new television sets along a more modern Afghan woman and her young daughter, (right) on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • A woman and her son are waling along the bazaar in the centre of Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Nobuhle, 21, a HIV+ woman, is portrayed in her house inside the township of Philippe East, Cape Town.
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  • Ms Habiba Sarabi, 54, the Governor of Bamyan Province, is portrayed while sitting at her desk. In 2005, she was appointed as Governor President Hamid Karzai, becoming the first woman to ever be a governor of any province in the country. As governor, she has announced one of her focuses will be on tourism as a source of income. The province has historically been a source of Buddhist culture. However, Bamiyan continues to remain one of the most under-developed provinces.
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  • Aghele Rezaie, 30, (right) the famous Afghan actress who has taken part in the controversial movie 'At Five in the Afternoon' (Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize in 2003) is helping her son, Tamim, 8, (left) with his daily homework in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. 'At Five in the Afternoon' focuses on the life of a progressive young woman who dreams of growing up to become the President of the Republic despite her oppressive home life and a strained relationship with her bigoted but loving father. The film follows the daily struggles of Afghan women in post-Taliban Afghanistan with tenderness and hope against a tragic background of death and despair.
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  • Aghele Rezaie, 30, (right) the famous Afghan actress who has taken part in the controversial movie 'At Five in the Afternoon' (Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize in 2003) is portrayed while sitting in her home in Kabul, Afghanistan. 'At Five in the Afternoon' focuses on the life of a progressive young woman who dreams of growing up to become the President of the Republic despite her oppressive home life and a strained relationship with her bigoted but loving father. The film follows the daily struggles of Afghan women in post-Taliban Afghanistan with tenderness and hope against a tragic background of death and despair. .
    Performing_For_Freedom_Kabul_Afghani...JPG
  • Aghele Rezaie, 30, (right) the famous Afghan actress who has taken part in the controversial movie 'At Five in the Afternoon' (Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize in 2003) is portrayed while sitting in her home with her family in Kabul, Afghanistan. 'At Five in the Afternoon' focuses on the life of a progressive young woman who dreams of growing up to become the President of the Republic despite her oppressive home life and a strained relationship with her bigoted but loving father. The film follows the daily struggles of Afghan women in post-Taliban Afghanistan with tenderness and hope against a tragic background of death and despair.
    Performing_For_Freedom_Kabul_Afghani...JPG
  • A young boy is walking on the hilltop surrounding the tannery area of Jajmau,<br />
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, located on the most polluted stretch of the mighty Ganges River.
    Kanpur_Leather_Industry_01.JPG
  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is washing the floor of her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
    38_Unicef_Karate_Classes_Jharkhand_I...JPG
  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is studying the Holy Koran inside her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
    23_Unicef_Karate_Classes_Jharkhand_I...JPG
  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is lighting up a small fire to cook some rice insider her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Hamidah, 6, (Centre) is playing with a shovel while other members of the family are washing clothes or arranging morning duties, in front the cave they live since seven years, during a cold winter morning in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_63.JPG
  • Children are playing in front of an inhabited section of the cliff where once stood the two giant Buddhas of Bamyan, in central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_59.JPG
  • A boy and his father are transporting gas cylinders with the use of donkeys in a small town on the road from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, to the mountain village of Bamiyan, located on the Hindu Kush range. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_Alex_Masi048.jpg
  • Professor Zemaryali Tarzi, (right) a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France and teacher in Strasbourg University, is portrayed discussing with one of his assistants on the excavation field where he is searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha. The statue should be located between the original two standing Buddhas, Afghanistan, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
    Bamiyan_UNESCO_Alex_Masi014.JPG
  • Yasamin Yarmal, 42, (right) a famous Afghan actress taking part to 'Love and Old Age', a successful soap opera broadcasted by Ariana Television Network (ATN), is discussing her acting with Ghafar Zalam, 48, (right - hands and script visible) the director, inside a home on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Yasamin Yarmal has performed in over 100 movies and some refer to her as the 'mother' of Afghan cinema. She was also selected as UNAMA (United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan) Peace Ambassador in 2009 for her role in leading a change towards women within the conservative and patriarchal Afghan society.
    Performing_For_Freedom_Kabul_Afghani...JPG
  • Elaha Soroor, 20, (centre) a finalist for 'Afghan Star', a Tolo TV program similar to American Idol, is portrayed in her home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Elaha Soroor was a finalist of Afghan Star in the 2008-2009 edition but failed to win on the final night. Some believe she lost because of her gender, others believe because she is ethnically Hazara, a minority group constituting about 15% of Afghanistan's population with features similar to Mongolians, flat noses, broad faces and almond-shaped eyes. Hazaras are mostly Shia Muslims, as opposed to other Afghans who are for the most part Sunnis.
    Performing_For_Freedom_Kabul_Afghani...JPG
  • Veena Bandyopadhyay, a senior member of the Unicef team in Madhya Pradesh, India, is talking to Pooja, 14, a student from the village of Pathpuri and to other villagers during a visit to their child reporter project in Hoshangabad, the village district. The project was launched in collaboration with Dalit Sangh, an NGO which has been working for the uplift of scheduled castes for the past 22 years.
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  • A family home in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been transformed into a small-scale workshop where young girls are decorating the bracelets produced in factories nearby. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units. This area is considered to be one of the highest concentrations of child labour on the planet. Forced to work to support their disadvantaged families, children as young as five are paid between 30-40 Indian Rupees (approx. 0.50 EUR) for eight or more hours of work daily. Most of these children are not able to receive an education and are easily prey of the labour-poverty cycle which has already enslaved their families to a life of exploitation. Children have to sit in crouched positions, use solvents, glues, kerosene and various other dangerous materials while breathing toxic fumes and spending most time of the day in dark, harmful environments. As for India's Child Labour Act of 1986, children under 14 are banned from working in industries deemed 'hazardous' but the rules are widely flouted, and prosecutions, when they happen at all, get bogged down in courts for lengthy periods. A ban on child labour without creating alternative opportunities for the local population is the central problem to the Indian Government's approach to the social issue affecting over 50 million children nationwide.
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  • A young girl from the village of Beghrajpur, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is collecting grass for her family's buffaloes from the banks of a large drain originating from the Beghrajpur Industrial Complex, mainly composed of chemical factories, a few hundred meters upstream, on Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008. The white drain, completely covered in foam, will reach the Kali river (East) in Usampur Bhopara village. At the end of its journey, the watercourse will eventually join the largest Ganges river injecting a deadly dose of pollutants into its Holy waters.
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  • Women are collecting water contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides from a hand-pump on the streets of Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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  • Students from the Laksha Grawha Ashram are bathing in a pool using groundwater that will later be devoted to irrigation in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, on Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008.
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  • Details of a Vampyre Connexionís member during a tour to West Norwood Cemetery on Sunday, 4 March, 2007, in London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric. **ItalyOut**
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  • A young man is providing information about lubricants to a couple of visitors by one of the exhibitors' stands at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • The famous pin-up star, and wife of Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese is posing on stage at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a small military base named ‘zamok’, Ukrainian for ‘castle’, in Luhanske, between Ukraine-controlled Bakhmut and the separatist-held town of Debaltseve.
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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army is riding a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) in Myronivs’kyi, in order to reach his positions on the frontline with pro-Russia separatists.
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  • Julia Paevska is bringing presents and talking to teachers at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • A worker in one of the tannery units within the industrial area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is pulling a large piece of leather from a chromium bath, where the skin has had hair and impurities removed in a process called liming, to be dried outside the factory.
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  • An elder and a young boy are using their bare hands to collect skins from a bath of contaminated water during the process of liming, removing hair and impurities with the use of various agents, in an illegal tannery unit located within the industrial area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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  • Ahead of Karate practice, Tabasum Khatun, 14, is standing with other girls, inside a class of the local school in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, and her best friend Anju Kumari, 13, (left) are practising a Karate counter-attack move during a class in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, (left) and her best friend Anju Kumari, 13, are observing a Karate counter-attack move during a class in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, is carrying two buckets of water to her home in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Tabasum Khatun, 14, and her best friend Anju Kumari, 13, (centre) are practising a Karate counter-attack move during a class in Algunda village, pop. 1000, Giridih District, rural Jharkhand, India.
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  • Villages are photographed from the air while travelling over the Hidu Kush range between Kabul and Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Milad, 2, is portrayed during a snowy winter morning in front of the cave where he lives with his family since seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • Maryam, 38, (Left) is sitting near the wood stove inside her family cave along two of her young daughters, Halemah, 9, (Centre) and Hamidah, 6, (Right) during the late afternoon hours when it is too cold to be spending time outside, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. A historically persecuted minority (15%) due to more lenient Islamic faith and characteristic 'Eastern' lineaments, Hazaras constitute the 70% of Bamyan's population.
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  • A villager is harvesting wheat in one of the fields located next to the Buddhas of Bamiyan's archaeological site. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • An Afghan child is carrying flowers through a field in Bamiyan, a small Afghan town mostly populated by Hazaras. The cliff where once stood the Western Buddha (55m - 'Male') is photographed after sunset in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Professor Zemaryali Tarzi, (left) a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France and teacher in Strasbourg University, is portrayed on his excavation field while searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue between the original standing Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • A young boy is riding his donkey home after having collected water water from a small river in Bamyan, Afghanistan. In the town there is no electricity or running water. Power is only being provided by generators or solar panels. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters. The statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art. The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modelled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. Amid widespread international condemnation, the smaller statues (55 and 39 meters respectively) were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban because they believed them to be un-Islamic idols. Once a stopping point along the Silk Road between China and the Middle East, researchers think Bamiyan was the site of monasteries housing as many as 5,000 monks during its peak as a Buddhist centre in the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now a UNESCO Heritage Site since 2003. Archaeologists from various countries across the world have been engaged in preservation, general maintenance around the site and renovation. Professor Tarzi, a notable An Afghan-born archaeologist from France, and a teacher in Strasbourg University, has been searching for a legendary 300m Sleeping Buddha statue in various sites between the original standing ones, as documented in the old account of a renowned Chinese scholar, Xuanzang, visiting the area in the 7th century. Professor Tarzi worked on projects to restore the other Bamiyan Buddhas in the late 1970s and has spent most of his career researching the existence of the missing giant Buddha in the valley.
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  • Azita Arif Nazimi, 25, (right) is presenting 'Family Live Show', a television program broadcasted live by Channel 1, an Afghan national television, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her guest and other members of the show are sitting near Azita. .
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  • Alka Sadat, 24, (centre), an award-winning documentary and fiction filmmaker, is smiling while sitting at her desk in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Roya Sadat, 28, (right) and Alka Sadat, 24, (centre), two sisters working on documentary and fiction film, are sitting at their desk while editing their recent shooting in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Aziz Dilder, 28, (left) a teacher at the cinema department of the fine art faculty of Kabul University is collaborating with the two brave sisters since about one year. Roya's most famous production is titled 'Three Dots' and it is an award-winning film that tells the story of women's village life in the province of Herat in western Afghanistan.
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  • Azita Arif Nazimi, 25, (left) is presenting 'Family Live Show', a television program broadcasted live by Channel 1, an Afghan national television, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Elaha Soroor, 20, (centre) a finalist for 'Afghan Star', a Tolo TV program similar to American Idol, is practising in her home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Elaha Soroor was a finalist of Afghan Star in the 2008-2009 edition but failed to win on the final night. Some believe she lost because of her gender, others believe because she is ethnically Hazara, a minority group constituting about 15% of Afghanistan's population with features similar to Mongolians, flat noses, broad faces and almond-shaped eyes. Hazaras are mostly Shia Muslims, as opposed to other Afghans who are for the most part Sunnis.
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  • Harjinder Kaur, 57, (right) is cooking in her home in Tilak Vihar, New Delhi, India. She has lost her husband and other members of her family during the anti-Sikh riots erupted in New Delhi in 1984 in the light of Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards.
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  • Pooja, 14, a student from the village of Pathpuri, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India, taking part to the children's journal, a project launched by Dalit Sangh, an NGO which has been working for the uplift of scheduled castes for the past 22 years, is using a digital camera provided by the project to child reporters. Dalit Sangh is working in collaboration with Unicef India to promote education and awareness within backward communities.
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  • Pooja, 14, a student from the village of Pathpuri, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India, taking part to the children's journal, a project launched by Dalit Sangh, an NGO which has been working for the uplift of scheduled castes for the past 22 years, is in her home writing on a notebook provided by the project to the various child reporters. Dalit Sangh is working in collaboration with Unicef India to promote education and awareness within backward communities.
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  • Pooja, 14, a student from the village of Pathpuri, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India, taking part to the children's journal, a project launched by Dalit Sangh, an NGO which has been working for the uplift of scheduled castes for the past 22 years, is preparing herself for the day in her home. Dalit Sangh is working in collaboration with Unicef India to promote education and awareness within backward communities.
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  • Boxes containing bracelets are photographed at a local street market in Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Due to extreme poverty, over 20.000 young children are employed to complete the bracelets produced in the industrial units. This area is considered to be one of the highest concentrations of child labour on the planet. Forced to work to support their disadvantaged families, children as young as five are paid between 30-40 Indian Rupees (approx. 0.50 EUR) for eight or more hours of work daily. Most of these children are not able to receive an education and are easily prey of the labour-poverty cycle which has already enslaved their families to a life of exploitation. Children have to sit in crouched positions, use solvents, glues, kerosene and various other dangerous materials while breathing toxic fumes and spending most time of the day in dark, harmful environments. As for India's Child Labour Act of 1986, children under 14 are banned from working in industries deemed 'hazardous' but the rules are widely flouted, and prosecutions, when they happen at all, get bogged down in courts for lengthy periods. A ban on child labour without creating alternative opportunities for the local population is the central problem to the Indian Government's approach to the social issue affecting over 50 million children nationwide.
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  • Residents of Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, are showing the contaminated yellow-coloured water from one of the hand-pumps many residents use as the only source for drinking and washing, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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  • A young agricultural labourer is harvesting wheat in a field near the village of Shamli, pop. 1500, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located dangerously near to Shamli Paper Mill, (visible in the background) a large industry discharging untreated wastewaters a few steps away from the field, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Feru, 70, the owner of the field is forced to feed its crops water from the mill's drain. "We own this land since more than 200 years, while this factory was erected in 1981," he adds, "we filed many complains to the MP offices in both Meerut and Lucknow but nobody in the government listens to us. We are not important to them." He also laments that "the soil is becoming defective, and so are our crops whose yield is diminishing year after year."
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  • Jenny, 62, the extravagant wife of Colin, the Vampyre Master, portrayed at her make-up table in her bedroom on Sunday, 29 June, 2007, in South London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric. **ItalyOut**
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  • Sonia Siccardi, 28, the singer of the Theatres des Vampires, a Gothic music group, is walking off the stage at the end of the concert at the Slimelight, an exclusive Goth club in London during a night organised by the Vampyre Connexion, on Saturday, 3 February, 2007, in London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric.**ItalyOut**
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  • Emma Smith, 21, is sitting on a sofa in Cecileís living room on Sunday, 15 October, 2006, in Camden Town, London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric. **ItalyOut**
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  • Emma Smith, 21, portrayed while savouring a glass of wine in Cecileís living room on Sunday, 15 October, 2006, in Camden Town, London, England. The Vampyre Connexion is the largest and most active of all the vampire groups in the United Kingdom, counting more than 100 members that for years have gathered regularly in London to share their common love for vampires and the Dark side of life. The Connexion raised from the hashes of the Vampyre Society, the first vampire appreciation group in 1995. The group believe in the fantasy of vampires and such creatures and live it to the full. Its  roots are to be found in the legends of Bram Stokerís Dracula. The group prints its own magazine, ëDark Nightsí featuring drawings, poetry, stories, photography and events. All of the members dress very peculiar clothing, and this is a very important part of the life of the group; it is respected with pride, taste and accuracy for the detail. Most like to dress to be elegant in a range of styles from regency to Victorian, some sew their own. In addition members visit art galleries, cemeteries, churches and cathedrals, attend gigs and concerts, and hold their own parties throughout the year, Halloween being the biggest and scariest one. Membership is open to all, the only qualification: being a love of all things Vampyric.  **ItalyOut**
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  • Women waiting by the window of a large shopping mall in London's Oxford Street, on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004.  **ITALY OUT**
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  • People marching during an anti-war demonstration held in central London, UK, on Saturday, March 19, 2005. **ITALY OUT**
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  • A male model is holding a copy of the sexy calendar featuring one of his pictures at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • The famous pin-up star, and wife of Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese is posing on stage at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • A group of showgirls is performing at the Erotica 2006 show in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Erotica is the world's largest adult lifestyle show. It attracts about 80,000 visitors every year with its over 150 retailer exhibitors, dazzling and decadent transvestite cabaret shows, fun foreplay seminars, beautiful lingerie collections, art and fetish demonstrations. **Italy Out**
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  • Julia Paevska is hugging a girl attending kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Soldiers are practising aim with a tank near their base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a solder that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his left leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • In the evening, members of ASAP are talking outside of their caravans, set up at the Mayorsk base near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Elena Mosiychuk, (nom the guerre Maliok, or ‘Baby’) a member of ASAP, is wearing her surgical gloves while seating in an improvised ‘warehouse’ for medicines, set up in an abandoned home in the village of Klynove, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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