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  • Pravesh Verma, 29, from the charity MASVAW, is smiling inside his home in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Pravesh grew up in a middle class family living in a small village where women had to stay in the house and cover their faces when young or just married. He never helped with anything at home; sometimes he and his brother used to beat their sister when she left home to be with her local friends. He used to insult girls using foul language. He had a girlfriend, an adult relationship, but nobody was to know. When his father found out, they had to break up. He later moved to Lucknow in 2001 to study philosophy, and in summer 2007 he attended his first MASVAW-workshop on gender equality. He was impressed and continued to visit those kind of workshops in the coming years. Pravesh began to change; he started to cook and clean on his own, opened up a banking account for his sister where he could deposit some money for her, he even asked his father to change some of his property to his mother's name. He now has a girlfriend named Pinki, 29, and they both met each other's parents. He would like to marry her, but she is still thinking about it. She lives close to Delhi, and they can only meet twice a month. He resides in Lucknow with his sister and his old grandmother, around 100 years old.
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  • Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi, (left) and her wife (right) are listening to some of their collaborators at the PVCHR headquarters in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Lenin's grandfather was a freedom fighter in India's fight against the British. His father was a communist, so he names all of his children after famous communists: Mao, Che Guevara, Stalin, Lenin and Raul. Lenin used to be a doctor in Ayurveda and modern medicine but quit because of the inherent corruption he witnessed. He founded PVCHR in 1996. The charity organises workshops, supports victims during trial and with the police, and promotes education and gender equality.
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  • Young women are taking part to an awareness workshop organised by Neeta Shani, from the charity PVCHR, in Parmandapur, a rural area near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The girls are painting pro-women slogans on the walls of the local Panchayat, or village council.
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  • Young women are taking part to an awareness workshop organised by Neeta Shani, from the charity PVCHR, in Parmandapur, a rural area near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The girls are painting pro-women slogans on the walls of the local Panchayat, or village council.
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  • Children are taking part to an awareness workshop organised by Neeta Shani, from the charity PVCHR, in Parmandapur, a rural area near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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  • The young nephew of Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi is standing near a Welcome sigh inside the PVCHR headquarters in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Lenin's grandfather was a freedom fighter in India's fight against the British. His father was a communist, so he names all of his children after famous communists: Mao, Che Guevara, Stalin, Lenin and Raul. Lenin used to be a doctor in Ayurveda and modern medicine but quit because of the inherent corruption he witnessed. He founded PVCHR in 1996. The charity organises workshops, supports victims during trial and with the police, and promotes education and gender equality.
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  • Children are taking part to an awareness workshop organised by Neeta Shani, from the charity PVCHR, in Parmandapur, a rural area near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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  • Neeta Shani, (centre) is speaking at an awareness workshop or youngsters organised by the charity PVCHR, in Parmandapur, a rural area near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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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 girl is being examined by a member of The Bhopal Medical Appeal during a community meeting near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Sachin, 16, a boy suffering from a severe physical disorder affecting his bone structure and legs, is being helped washing by his grandmother, inside their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • On a rainy day, a girl is playing with an umbrella along the railway tracks passing through New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Young men are celebrating the festival of Janamashtami, the birthday of Hindu God Krishna, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A girl, followed by younger children, is buying a balloon from a local vendor passing near the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • An injured dog is sitting on the pavement in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young boy is running home under heavy rain in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A boy is jumping while others are about to start a game of cricket around the abandoned evaporation pool (left) that was once used by Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) next to their industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Thousands tons of hazardous chemical waste are still buried in various spots around this area of Bhopal.
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  • Meenakshi, 7, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother, is being washed by Sorom Bai, 35, in their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Children are playing on a cart, while crossing a small flooded road in Oriya Basti, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, a water-affected colony located near the former Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • By burning a 'corporate man' statue, an effigy of unregulated, dangerous capitalism and exploitation, Bhopalis are demonstrating in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on the 29th anniversary since the disaster, December 2, 2013. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • In the early morning, a young girl is carrying her crying sibling towards their home by the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Siddhesh, 12, a boy suffering from severe celebral palsy is sitting on a toilet bowl inside his home in Nariyal Kheda, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. Siddhesh's father has abandoned him years ago. His mother is also suffering from mental retardation, and they now live with Siddhesh's maternal grandfather on the meagre pension he has earned after working as a civil servant. In 1984 Siddhesh's mother survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rachna, 8, (right) a girl suffering from a severe neurological disorder, is riding the Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre's bus with her sister, Reena, 12, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is being restrained with a cord to her ankle by her mother Jyoti Yadav, 34, a '1984 Gas Survivor', in order to keep her from wandering off on her own and being at risk of abuse and danger, while inside their home near Saifiya College, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • By burning a 'corporate man' statue, an effigy of unregulated, dangerous capitalism and exploitation, Bhopalis are demonstrating in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on the 29th anniversary since the disaster, December 2, 2013. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rashid Ali, 35, a '1984 Gas Survivor', is talking on a mobile phone while hugging his disabled son Rahil Ali, 7, a boy affected by lissencephaly, inside their home in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Rahil lives with his father and deaf grandmother in a small, single room rented within a larger house. Due to the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India, in 2009 Rahil's mother left the family.
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  • Afreen, 17, a member of the Red Brigades, is performing during a street play promoting awareness about women’s condition in India, on the streets of Madiyaw colony, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The Red Brigades are a group of young women led by Usha, 25, who after an attempted rape began talking about abuse with her students, aged around 14 to 18 years old. Usha founded the Red Brigades in November 2010. They perform in self-written plays on gender equality around villages and cities, take part to protests and also teach self-defence classes. Most of the girls in the group have experienced some kind of abuse in their past. They sing words such as "all sisters are breaking all the rules, boundaries, come to bring a new world, change will come," and "for how long do we have to go through this?" and "the country has freedom, but girls do not have freedom."
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  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, (centre) is tidying up some clothes inside her house, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family. Her eldest sister, Minal, 20, (right) came to visit her family, while their father Mahesh Kashinath Pandit, 42, (left) is talking to her.
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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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  • Boys are playing cricket by the side of a large evaporation pool once used by Union Carbide for their industrial wastewater, next to Blue Moon, the contaminated colonies next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. In this area, hazardous chemical have also been buried and continue to contaminate the underground aquifers.
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  • Vehicles are stuck in traffic because of a heavy rainfall ahead of monsoon season, in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • On September 29, 2014, the day of former Union Carbide Warren Anderson’s death in Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 92 and still absconding from India courts wanting him in relation to the ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, angry Bhopalis are demonstrating in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, by spitting on an image of the deceased, reputed the man mostly responsible for the catastrophe that changed Bhopal forever.
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  • A .Puja. (worship) for good auspices is taking place inside a newly opened tailor shop in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi / Focus For Humanity
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  • A young boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder is taking part to a community meeting organised by The Bhopal Medical Appeal near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • The contorted legs of Faizan, 14, are a clear example of the dangers faced by the children and their families living in Arif Nagar, one of the many impoverished colonies of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, located dangerously near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Faizan has recently deceased.
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  • Children are sitting around a Ganesha shrine during the Gampati Festival, dedicated to the famous Indian God with an elephant's head, in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A girl is playing with a red ball during celebrations for the Dussehra Festival in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the 1984 Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) gas disaster.
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  • Yaroslav, 10, is playing with a small photo/video-recording drone while inside the provisional home where he resides with his mother Olga, 36, as internally displaced persons. (IDPs) Yeroslav is taking part to the UNICEF-sponsored One Minute Junior project for internally displaced persons (IDPs), carried out by the local NGO 'Ukrainian Frontiers' in the city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, in the east. The conflict between Ukrainian army and Russia-backed separatists nearby, in the Donbass region, have left more than 10000 dead since April 2014, including over 1000 since the shaky Minsk II ceasefire came into effect in February 2015. The approximate number of people displaced by the conflict is 1.4 million as of August 2015. Yeroslav’s mother, Olga, is also a participant to a different project of 'Ukrainian Frontiers', called 'Self-Employment', first as a beneficiary, and now as a paid hotline coordinator for people seeking jobs and formation courses.
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  • (name changed) Kanchan Kumari Sharma, 12, is standing insider her home in Sersiya Kekrahi village, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh, India. In 2012, Kanchan went with a friend to bring lunch to her father, around 2 km away from her home. On the way they met Rajesh (rapist) and Ashok, a friend of his. Both girls were picked up on the spot using an excuse. Ashok drove Kanchan's friend home, but Rajesh forced Kanchan to travel with him during six days and for hundreds of kilometres across different states. (Mirzapur / Chennai / Itarsi / Bhusawal) He raped her once behind the station in Itarsi. With great effort and some coincidence, the uncle of Kanchan managed to bring her back home. Although she was scared, she insisted on going to the police to file a case (FIR). She was kept at the police station for 12 days and threatened to prevent her from filing an official case. Ashok and Rajesh are from higher caste and wealthy families. While Rajesh spent 24 days in jail initially in summer 2012, he is now a free man while the trial is still going on. Kanchan's family is now struggling to put together 30.000 Indian Rupees (500 USD) to continue battling for justice in court.
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  • Mayuri Mahesh Pandit, 13, is walking around her modest home, before leaving to participate at the Unicef-run 'Deepshikha Prerika' project inside the Milind Nagar Pipeline Area, an urban slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she resides with her family.
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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 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 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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  • Sachin, 18, a boy suffering from a severe leg paralysis due to the consumption of contaminated water in early age, is sitting inside his home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the former Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Shajad Khan, 56, is portrayed inside his home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Shajad has been employed with Union Carbide in the city for 10 years, (1974-1984) first working as a packaging assistant and then assuming a managerial position in the same department.
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  • Apesha, 4, a child presenting a severe physical and mental disability, is participating to a physiotherapy session inside Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • Meenakshi, 5, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother is portrayed inside her home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the former Union Carbide industrial complex. Over 30.000 people are here at risk by the ongoing underground water contamination.
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  • Children's toys are laying inside the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • Children are being assisted at the Chingari Trust in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, located only minutes away from the former Union Carbide factory. Chingari Trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and suffer irreparable damage.
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  • A patient is waiting for a medicinal Ayurvedic mix to be prepared by a physician at the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Sambhavna offers free medical services to the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Industrial Disaster and has more than 30.000 registered patients.
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  • Meenakshi, 7, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother is kissing her only doll while inside her home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide industrial complex.
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  • Women are working on the premises of Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Ikai, a union of 'gas-affected women', of which Rashida Bee, 56, is the the president, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Rashida Bee, 56, (centre/front) the co-funder of Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre for disabled children, is working the premises of Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Ikai, a union of 'gas-affected women', of which she is also the president, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Rashida Bee, 56, (centre/front) the co-funder of Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre for disabled children, is working the premises of Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Ikai, a union of 'gas-affected women', of which she is also the president, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Neha, 7, is standing in the entrance of her home in Indira Nagar, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradeh, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. Neha was born blind, suffering from a neurological disorder, and due to the insufficient care she regularly receives, she developed an eyes and skin infection, and severe malnutrition. Neha shares a single room with no windows with three sisters and one younger brother: Bushra, 14, a girl affected by down syndrome, Nisha, 12, Fiza, 17 and Sohel, 9. Their father left their home in September 2013 and never contacted them anymore; their mother died in 2011. In 1984 she survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Pupils are attending celebrations for India's Independence Day 2012 in front of their school in one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • The tank that in 1984 leaked the poisonous gas-cloud that invested the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1984, killing thousands, is laying abandoned among overgrowing vegetation in a yard inside the Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • Cars are passing by a advertisement about mirrors, on the road of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, city of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • A large cement water tank is standing behind makeshift homes in New Arif Nagar, one of the contaminated colonies next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is receiving speech therapy while laying on the floor of 'Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre', one of two vital medical institutions funded by 'The Bhopal Medical Appeal' in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Pupils from a government-run school are walking back home through the impoverished New Arif Nagar colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young boy is playing a small drum near his home, in a water-contaminated colony of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • A boy, surrounded by some young friends, is selling corn from his family's cart, parked along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A boy is smiling while walking with his goat along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A tank is standing abandoned inside the derelict Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • Kameeza Bee, 60, a widow 'gas-survivor' now suffering from cancer, is sitting on the floor of her home in Nawab, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Kameeza and her family fed on contaminated underground water until 2010, when some pipeline was installed reached her home.
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  • On September 29, 2014, the day of former Union Carbide Warren Anderson’s death in Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 92 and still absconding from India courts wanting him in relation to the ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, Sathyu Sarangi, founder of ‘Sambhavna’ a free clinic for ‘Gas Survivors’, is giving a TV interview in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, next to an image of the deceased, reputed the man mostly responsible for the catastrophe that changed Bhopal forever.
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  • Shezadi Bee, 59, an activist for the ICJB (International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal) is recounting her dramatic, sorrowful story while sitting on the floor of their office in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • While a train is passing by, two young boys are arguing near piles of garbage and a makeshift toilet set up  along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Samir, 14, a severely disabled boy, is lifting his tiny arm while lying on the floor of his home in Kasi Camp, one of the water-affected colonies standing near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Suraj, 7, a child born with severe mental and physical disabilities from gas-affected parents, is using a medical chair to sit straight while a volunteer and his mother are playing with him, on the floor of Chingari Trust in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and to suffer irreparable damage.
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  • Three siblings (top left) are observing their mother offering a plate of milk to three small cats, (bottom left) while another young girl is defecating (right) in front of their home near the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A lone man is walking on the side of the abandoned evaporation pool (right) that was once used by Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) next to their industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Thousands tons of hazardous chemical waste are still buried in various spots around this area of Bhopal.
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  • Neha, 7, is standing in the entrance of her home in Indira Nagar, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradeh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. Neha was born blind, suffering from a neurological disorder, and due to the insufficient care she regularly receives, she developed an eyes and skin infection, and severe malnutrition. Neha shares a single room with no windows with three sisters and one younger brother: Bushra, 14, a girl affected by down syndrome, Nisha, 12, Fiza, 17 and Sohel, 9. Their father left their home in September 2013 and never contacted them anymore; their mother died in 2011. In 1984 she survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • In the afternoon, children are playing around while women are going about their daily routine, in front of their modest homes along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • During the holy month of Ramadan, two Muslim boys are walking under the rain inside the Taj-ul-Masajid, one of Asia's largest mosques, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Muslim children are studying inside a small Madrassa (Islamic school) in Kasi Camp, one of the nineteen water-affected colonies of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • An Indian man is smocking a cigarette while waiting for a commercial train to pass through New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A girl is looking out of the window of a bus travelling in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • During the holy month of Ramadan, a girl is adjusting her headscarf while walking in line in Kasi Camp, one of the nineteen water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • During the holy month of Ramadan, blind Muslim beggars are waling in line in Kasi Camp, one of the nineteen water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A girl is busy collecting potable drinking water delivered by a government truck in Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Aliyar, 18 months, a boy suffering from a severe case of hydrocephalus, is lying in the arms of his mother, Roxana, 31, inside the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Shajad Khan, 56, is portrayed inside his home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Shajad has been employed with Union Carbide in the city for 10 years, (1974-1984) first working as a packaging assistant and then assuming a managerial position in the same department.
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  • The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex is lying abandoned in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex is lying abandoned in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Raj, 7, a child suffering from a severe neurological disorder is being held by his mother, Poona Bai, 40, in front of their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A woman is tending to the fire, in the late afternoon, on the streets of Oriya Basti, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the 1984 Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) gas disaster.
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