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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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  • 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.
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  • David Raphael, 35, is showing the scars left on his body by a bomb blast on 24th December 2010. The explosion damaged the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Christian Catholic church located in the Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A lone Muslim woman is walking by a series of destroyed homes in Dutse Uku, pop. 40.000, a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Residents of Dutse Uku clashed and were attacked by a neighbouring Christian community after local government elections in 2008. 380 houses were destroyed, and around 20 people were killed. All Christians have since then left their homes within the community, in order to resettle in Christian-dominated areas of the city.
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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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  • Now studying pedagogy and psychology, a young Ukrainian soldier named Vadim, 24, lost his left-arm and both legs when two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hit the armoured vehicle he was driving in February 2015. He is portrayed while residing at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, in eastern Ukraine.
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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 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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  • 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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  • A group of slum dwellers on the hills surrounding the tannery area of Jajmau are busy collecting fresh water being provided to the colony daily by the government in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The inhabitants are complaining that too little water is provided for the large population of the area, while in case of power cuts, a very common event in Kanpur, the pumping station can shut down completely for days at the time. Rows and arguments over water collection here are an unfortunate daily reality.
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  • A young girl from Joana, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is standing in front of her house. The inhabitants of the village are affected by the wastewater originated from the nearby Jajmau Industrial Area, the largest leather producing hub in India, discharging directly into the holy Ganges River.
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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 young boy is removing contaminated water from a bath after the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents, in an illegal tannery unit inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Children are largely employed to work on scraps, or little pieces of skin, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag, a wallet, or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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  • A young boy is collecting skins from a bath during the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents, in an illegal tannery unit inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Children are largely employed to work on scraps, or little pieces of skin, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag, a wallet, or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is blessing devotees before celebrating a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A woman is walking by a destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed.
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  • A Christian woman is walking by an armoured truck providing security for the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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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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  • Doli, 5, (middle) from the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, is shaking in the arms of her father, on Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2008. Doli is affected by a neurological disorder since birth. Doctors believe her condition to be associated to water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals the family is drinking on an everyday basis. Her skull is underdeveloped and she has serious cognitive limitations that have left her unable to frequent school or carry on any sort of educational activity. The family is now using a nearby governmental hand-pump that provides better quality water in comparison to the 20ft deep private one they priory used.
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  • Sakib, 7, from the Patanpura Colony, Saharanphur District, is leading his buffalo out of the Dhamola river, a severely polluted small-size watercourse, in reality more similar to a drain, that joins the Hindon river a few kilometres downstream, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Sakib regularly comes here with his family to wash their buffaloes and provide them water to drink, unaware of the consequences the contamination could have on himself and his animals.
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  • Vasilevich Kopylov, 75, (left) is standing next to his broken door with one of his neighbours, in the frontline town of Avdiivka, where he resides alone in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Ludmilla Palchick, 12, is holding her stepbrother of 18 months, Nikolas, while standing in a house that her family occupied in the town of Popasna, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, after their own home was destroyed by a missile in 2014.
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  • Oleg Tkachemko, 47, (centre) a Chaplin from the 'Good News Church' in Slovakisk, is praying with soldiers and volunteers after meeting them in the town of Maryinka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • Koren, 5, is one of three children presenting a similar neurological disorder and living on the same road in Joana village, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He is portrayed while in the arms of his father. The village is located onto a series of drains joining the Ganges River nearby and the community is entirely.reliant on the poisonous groundwater. Koren has serious cognitive limitations while his body's right side is affected by a semi-paralysis and muscular defection. His family cannot afford even a rudimental medication.
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  • A child with a neurological disorder (2nd from left) is portrayed with his underprivileged family inside their rudimental home in Joana, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a poor agricultural village affected by the tanneries' untreated water discharge in the Ganges River.
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  • A large drain is pouring municipal and industrial waste into the Ganges River near Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Many drains are scattered around the area and discharge contaminated wastewater into the nearby river tainting underground reservoirs and endangering the fresh water supply of local people.
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  • Young workers are feeding a series of large boilers in an illegal dumping and burning ground located on the banks of the holy Ganges River near the tannery area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The scrap leather is destined to be boiled and reduced to a thin dust: the raw material for fertilisers and chicken food production.
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  • Labourers are collecting and dividing the thin black dust obtained by boiling leather scraps in one of the many dumping and burning grounds near the tannery area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. This dust is the first process to fertilisers and chicken food.
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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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  • Workers in one of the larger tanneries within the Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are stockpiling pieces of leather while trimming impurities and scraps before proceeding to colouring and finishing.
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  • Workers in one of the large tanneries located in Jajmau area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are processing leather in chromium baths, or liming, while complying to little, if any, health and safety regulations.
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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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  • A child labourer in one of the illegal tannery units inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is holding to the side of a pool while stepping on buffalo's skins inside a bath during the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents. Children are mostly employed on scraps, or little parts, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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  • Muslim children are playing football next to a series of destroyed homes in Dutse Uku, pop. 40.000, a Muslim-dominated neighbourhood in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Residents of Dutse Uku clashed and were attacked by a neighbouring Christian community after local government elections in 2008. 380 houses were destroyed, and around 20 people were killed. All Christians have since then left their homes within the community, in order to resettle in Christian-dominated areas of the city.
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  • A young girl is pulling her father's hand after a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • The Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, 54, is celebrating a Mass Service at the Christian Catholic Cathedral Of Our Lady Fatima in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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  • A girl is looking around while priest Norbert Gokum, 40, is celebrating a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • Austin Jang, 26, a social development worker in the Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Kabong, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Austin is part of the 'Early Warning Team' of Jos, meant to facilitate communication, awareness and reconciliation, in order to prevent further violence between local communities of Christian and Islamic faith.
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  • Ishaya Mallan, 29, a Christian man who witnessed the murder of his 11-year-old son, is standing inside his destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed. Ishaya's son was hiding in the bushes during the attack but the attackers found him, and slit his throat. The young father could only see him dying while also hiding in the bushes near his home to avoid attracting the attention of the attackers.
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  • A man is entering his destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed.
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  • Devotees are praying while taking part to a Mass Service at Saint Theresa's Christian Catholic Church in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Saint Theresa's is the first Christian Catholic Church built in Jos, in 1923.
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  • A father (right) and his daughter - carrying a younger sibling - are standing in their destroyed home in Kakuruk village, Gashish district, in the local government of Barkin Ladi, near Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The village, inhabited by Christians from the Berom tribe, has received various attacks by neighbouring Muslim Fulani - a nomadic cattle-herder tribe non-indigenous to Plateau - with the last one on 7th July, 2012, when more than 30 houses were demolished and 8 Christian villagers killed.
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  • The blackened, contaminated waters of the Krishni river are photographed in the village of Chandenamal, pop. 1500, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Friday, Apr. 4, 2008.
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  • Pardip, a 12-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is leaning on a government-installed hand-pump, on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2008. Pardip developed a neurological disease due to the long-term effects of consuming contaminated water at the age of two. His family and him still regularly use the same 40 ft deep hand-pump located in their courtyard which provides water with large quantities of heavy metals and pesticides leaked through the ground from the nearby drains and the severely polluted Hindon river.
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  • A drain from a local paper mill is pouring wastewaters back into the surrounding environment by the banks of the Kali river (East) in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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  • Children residing in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, are in line to receive water and other goods from a governmental agency that provides essentials to the poorest residents once a week, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008. Due to the heavy metal contamination of underground water sources many of the residents are forced to walk 2-3 kilometres to reach a safer hand-pump, and those who are unable to do so, have to drink unsafe water which is the cause of many of the diseases affecting the local population.
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  • Amnoor, a 5-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is being washed by his father using contaminated water delivered by their private hand-pump, on Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008. Amnoor was diagnosed a nervous damage due to the long-term effects of consuming unsafe water at the age of three. Before that he even used to run and was very healthy. Now, his reality is a semi-paralysis to both his left arm and leg. The family, whose only breadwinner is Vinod, 35, an agricultural labour, had to incur in a Rs 30000 (USD 600) expense for Amnoor's first treatment at the PGA Hospital in Chandigarth, Punjab, and in more than Rs 1000 (USD 12) a month for the cost of his medicines. With an average daily wage of Rs 50-60 and two more children to provide for, Vinod is facing a dire economic situation.
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  • A truck driver and his co-workers are waiting to deliver their load of sugarcane inside the Daurala Sugar Works industrial complex, near Daurala village, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, Apr. 14, 2008. Sugarcane-related manufactories, like sugar mills and distilleries rank between the 17 most polluting industries by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests and special conditions apply to the release of their wastewaters back into the environment. If Daurala Sugar Works, whose drain reaches the Kali river (East), have implemented a fairly efficient Effluent Treatment Plant, many in the sugarcane-rich area have not, and keep releasing contaminated water into nearby rivers. Even if levels of pollutants are believed to be largely reduced at the Complex, the Kali river (East) cannot absorb any more amount of wastewaters and its situation remains critically unhealthy... ..
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  • Children belonging to Furkhan's family, a 35-year-old agricultural labourer living in the village of Shamli, pop. 1500, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located dangerously near to Shamli Paper Mill, are throwing stones into the drain running right at their doorstep, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Originating from the untreated wastewaters of Sikka and Maruti paper mills, another two large factories in the area, this drain is a serious hazard to the health of the people residing in the surrounding area as well as for the environment. Furkahn laments that their house was built long before the drain started to flow, and even though he complained various times to the government in both Muzaffarnagar and Meerut, two large cities near the district, there has not been any tangible improvement to the situation.
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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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  • A worried young girl, Zarina, 9, is standing by the entrance of her home in the town of Zaitsevo, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Psychologist Valentina Eremicheva, 54, is leading a group therapy lesson at the 'Centre for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation' in the town of Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Members of the charity ASAP, 'As Soon As Possible', are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better equipped hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Members of ASAP are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a soldier that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his right leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is having a haircut in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • Myronivs’kyi is a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • A soldier is talking on the radio on the frontline of Myronivs’kyi, where soldiers are building small makeshift bases and digging trenches to defend their positions.
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  • Julia Paevska is checking the heartbeat of 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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  • The driver of a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) is standing on top of it while on the frontline of Myronivs’kyi, where soldiers are building small makeshift bases and digging trenches to defend their positions.
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  • After loosing his right arm and leg to an artillery round that destroyed his shelter in July 2016, Serhiy Bilan, 23, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, located in east. He was wounded after only two months of serving in the army and now wishes to learn coding, work in IT and in computer games.
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  • Julia Paevska is evacuating a volunteer named Sergey to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. He was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van he was driving in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as he was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • Julia Paevska is checking her radio while at the Mayorsk ASAP base near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is relaxing on her bed inside a small base near the Bakhmut-Debaltseve highway, in Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Children at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine, are performing a play to celebrate women’s day and the coming of spring.
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  • Julia Paevska is evacuating a volunteer named Sergey to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. He was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van he was driving in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as he was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • Julia Paevska’s ambulance is travelling towards a checkpoint set up by the army on the road between Bakhmut and Luhanske, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A man is bathing in the polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, at dawn. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair.
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  • Six boys are sitting on the banks of the polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, near the tannery area of Jajmau. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair.
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  • Agricultural labourers are collecting water devoted to irrigation from pools forming on the side of the polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, near Jajmao Industrial Area. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair while crops absorb the contaminants from the water and pass it on to those consuming the vegetables grown in this area.
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  • The polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is seen at dawn from its banks, bordering the large tannery area of Jajmao. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair.
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  • Workers at one of the illegal dumping and burning grounds on the outskirts of Jajmau, near the Ganges River, are portrayed while taking a break on a pile of scrap leather destined to be boiled and reduced to a thin dust: the first process to fertilisers and chicken food, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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  • Two labourers having a meal of boiled potatoes before beginning their daily work in one of the illegal dumping and burning grounds surrounding the area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. After being bathed in chromium and other chemicals to remove hair and impurities in a process called liming, the skins are examined by hand and the useless parts are cut and sent to one of these fields where they are boiled and reduced to a thin black dust. The resulting dark powder will then be used as a fertiliser or for the first stage of poultry food production.
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  • A man is moving a heavy load of half-processed leather on arrival from a different unit, to a new plant for further processing in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Knowing whether children were employed in the process is the real challenge when outsourcing leather in Kanpur.
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  • A child is sewing parts of what will be leather articles, inside a medium-size manufacturing unit in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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  • The owner of a small tannery in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is showing the leather just painted in their unit. Arrived from somewhere else, painted by the two children I have witnessed working here, it will depart to reach other hands, and later become an item for sale. In Jajmau this is a daily reality and an intervention is needed to curb the practice.
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  • Two men are moving a heavy load of half-processed leather using a severed horse pulling a wooden cart to a new plant for further processing in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Knowing whether children were employed in the process is the real challenge when outsourcing leather in Kanpur.
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  • Workers inside the warehouse of a large tannery in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are counting, stockpiling and measuring pieces of dry leather while cutting out some impurities and scraps. They will then proceed with smoothing, colouring and finishing.
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  • A labourer is moving a heavy load of half-processed leather destined to reach a new unit to complete another step of the production chain. In Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanupu, Uttar Pradesh, the leather passes hand in hand many times before being ready for the final product manufacturing stage. This 'outsourcing effect' creates a considerable risk for local underprivileged children to become involved in hazardous activities and subjected to lifelong exploitation.
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  • A young man in an illegal tannery inside Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is taking a break from the dark, dusty room where he works smoothing and cutting leather. Labourers use almost no protection against the cancerogenic particles generated by this industrial process. Many are oblivious to health and safety regulations, their rights as employees or the impact of a prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals and particles.
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  • A boy is taking a break while working inside a bath during the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents, in an illegal tannery unit inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Children are largely employed to work on scraps, or little pieces of skin, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag, a wallet, or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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  • Two young boys are collecting skins from a bath during the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents, in an illegal tannery unit inside Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Children are largely employed to work on scraps, or little pieces of skin, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag, a wallet, or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
    Kanpur_Leather_Industry_04.JPG
  • A labourer is moving a heavy load of half-processed leather destined to reach a new unit to complete another step of the production chain in Kanpu, Uttar Pradesh. In Jajmau Industrial Area the leather passes hand in hand many times before being ready for manufacturing stage. This 'outsourcing effect' creates a considerable risk for local underprivileged children to become involved in hazardous activities and subjected to exploitation.
    Kanpur_Leather_Industry_03.JPG
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