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  • Julia Paevska’s ambulance is approaching 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Julia Paevska’s cat is playing inside her temporary home at small base near the Bakhmut-Debaltseve highway, in Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Julia Paevska (centre) is talking with other volunteers while caressing a dog in the front-yard of 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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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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  • Julia Paevska is having a haircut in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is about to have 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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  • Elena Mosiychuk, (nom the guerre Maliok, or ‘Baby’) a member of ASAP, is taking a moment of calm while talking about her brother, who died in the war, as she seats 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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  • 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 (right) is talking with Elena Mosiychuk, (nom the guerre Maliok, or ‘Baby’) another member of ASAP, while standing 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 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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  • 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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  • 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 tying her hair, sitting on a bunk bed while visiting soldiers at a military base near the frontline in Myronivs’kyi.
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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 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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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army (left) is overlooking the delivery of supplies to his positions on the frontline in Myronivs’kyi, 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 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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  • Julia Paevska is embracing soldier Jana Chervonaya, during a visit to a small military base named ‘zamok’, Ukrainian for ‘castle’, in Luhanske, between Ukraine-controlled Bakhmut and separatist-controlled areas of Debaltseve.
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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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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army (left) 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • With other members of ASAP, 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 talking on the phone while sitting 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’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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  • The Little Girl of the play is looking out her rocket for the first time in Waterloo Place, central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Vernon Watkins, 62, is holding some of the coal extracted from Unity Mine for the first time in 8 years on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, in Cwmgwrach, Vale of Neath, South Wales. The time is ripe again for an unexpected revival of the coal industry in the Vale of Neath due to the increasing prize and diminishing reserves of oil and gas, the uncertainties of renewable energy sources, and the technological advancement in producing energy from coal while limiting emissions of pollutants, has created the basis for valuable investment opportunities and a possible alternative to the latest energy crisis. Unity Mine, in particular, has started a pioneering effort to revive the coal industry in the area, reopening after more than 8 years with the intent of exploiting the large resources still buried underground. Coal could be then answer to both, access to cheaper and paradoxically greener energy and a better and safer choice than nuclear energy as a major supply for the decades to come. It is estimated that coal reserves in Wales amount to over 250 million tonnes, or the equivalent of at least 50 years of energy supply, while the worldwide total coal could last for over 200 years as a viable resource compared to only a few decades of oil and natural gas.
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  • Christian, 35, (left) dumpster diving since more than eight years is having some fun with another member of the Freegan community while taking some time away from the kitchen at a dinner cooked entirely with food recovered from dumping sites around the island of Manhattan, New York, NY., on Friday, June 23, 2006. Freegans are a community of people who aims at recovering wasted food, books, clothing, office supplies and other items from the refuse of retail stores, frequently discarded in brand new condition. They recover goods not for profit, but to serve their own immediate needs and to share freely with others. According to a study by a USDA-commissioned study by Dr. Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, half of all food in the United States is wasted at a cost of $100 billion dollars every year. Yet 4.4 million people in the United States alone are classified by the USDA as hungry. Global estimates place the annual rate of starvation deaths at well over 8 million. The massive waste generated in the process fills landfills and consumes land as new landfills are built. This waste stream also pollutes the environment, damages public health as landfills chemicals leak into the ground, and incinerators spew heavy metals back into the atmosphere. Freegans practice strategies for everyday living based on sharing resources, minimizing the detrimental impact of our consumption, and reducing and recovering waste and independence from the profit-driven economy. They are dismayed by the social and ecological costs of an economic model where only profit is valued, at the expense of the environment. In a society that worships competition and self-interest, Freegans advocate living ethical, free, and happy lives centred around community and the notion that a healthy society must function on interdependence. Freegans also believe that people have a right and responsibility to take back control of their time.
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant, and the Sultan, encounter the  Little Girl of the play, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Members of the Royal De Luxe acting on the balcony by the side of the gigantic mechanical elephant in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Members of the Royal De Luxe controlling parts of the gigantic elephant from their position just underneath its head, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant walking through his arena in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006, while a member of the Royal De Luxe talk on his radiophone. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant walking through his arena in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Member of the Royal De Luxe controlling part of the Little Girl marionette from the ground, central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time.  **ITALY OUT**
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  • The Little Girl of the play being moved towards her chair, while a woman in the foreground is controlling part of the elephant, central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant walking through Piccadilly Circus in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • During recreational time, Hassana Ibrahim, 11, (second from right) her classmate Rahima Ibrahim, 11, (second from left, not sisters) and other pupils are spending some time together in the courtyard of their school in Boggu, Tamale, northern Ghana.
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant spraying water on the crowd from his arena in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant, and the Sultan, encounter the  Little Girl of the play. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London, on Friday, May 5, 2006, is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Head of the gigantic mechanical elephant controlled by the Royal De Luxe, on Friday, May 5, 2006. A member of the crew is sitting on it. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The gigantic mechanical elephant spraying water on the crowd from his arena in central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • One of the crew of the Royal De Luxe sitting on the side of the Little Girl?s marionette, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • The Litle Girl of the play is taken out of her rocket landed in Waterloo Place, central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • Policeman standing by the rocket in which the Litle Girl of the play landed, in Waterloo Place, central London, on Friday, May 5, 2006. The Sultan's Elephant show, for the first time in London is a magical, and unique in the world, theatrical show across the streets, performed by an international French company - Royal De Luxe - specialised in constructing and giving 'life' to enormous mechanical puppets. The Sultan's Elephant is the story of a Sultan dreaming of a little girl that travels through time. **ITALY OUT**
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  • 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.
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  • A woman is stepping into a rickshaw next to the Bangalore City Market, Karnataka, India. Near this very same place Shafiq Syed, now 34, used to sleep and make a meagre living when he escaped various times from his father's home at the tender age of 11 to live as a street child here first, and then in Mumbai. It was during the time living next to Churchgate train station, in central Mumbai, that he was selected to become the main character for the cast of Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay. After the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he moved on to become a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.
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  • A young boy, about the same age and in the same area where Shafiq Syed worked more than 20 years ago, is carrying vegetables on the streets surrounding the Bangalore City Market, Karnataka, India. Shafiq, now 34, used to sleep and make a meagre living here when he escaped various times from his father's home at the tender age of 11 to live as a street child in Bangalore first, and then in Mumbai. It was during the time living next to Churchgate train station, in central Mumbai, that he was selected to become the main character for the cast of Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay. After the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he moved on to become a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.
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  • The City Market is photographed in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. On these very same pavements Shafiq Syed, now 34, used to sleep and make a meagre living when he escaped various times from his father's home at the tender age of 11 to live as a street child here first, and then in Mumbai. It was during the time living next to Churchgate train station, in central Mumbai, that he was selected to become the main character for the cast of Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay. After the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he moved on to become a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.
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  • The entrance of the City Market is photographed in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. On these very same pavements Shafiq Syed, now 34, used to sleep and make a meagre living when he escaped various times from his father's home at the tender age of 11 to live as a street child here first, and then in Mumbai. It was during the time living next to Churchgate train station, in central Mumbai, that he was selected to become the main character for the cast of Cannes' Camera D'Or 1988 winner Salaam Bombay. After the movie he failed to become a star, fell back into poverty and lived on the streets for years before he moved on to become a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) driver in his home city of Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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  • Kachur, 13, originally from the city of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, is participating to the nationalist Azov Battalion Summer Children's Camp near the village of Buzova, 10 km west of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This is Kachur's second time at an Azov summer camp.
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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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  • 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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  • (name changed) Neelam Bharadwaj, 16, is standing inside her family’s home in Rajbhar village, located around 20 kilometres away from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Neelam was raped when she was 13 years old. After walking to a local shop on the main road neighbouring her village, she was forcibly picked up by two men. While one of them was raping her in the bushes, the other watched out. After some time, she managed to free herself and run away, hiding under a bridge in cold dirty water for several hours. When she returned home in the morning, the family was too afraid to go to the police, but activist Mangla Parsad, 34, from PVCHR, convinced the family to take the right action. The police initially insulted and threatened the family for bringing the facts up, but filed the official case (FIR) nevertheless. The rape was not mentioned in the file due to an inaccurate and superficial medical record that did not, in fact, mention it. Because of social shame facing by victims of rape in India, the family agreed to wed Neelam to an older man, with help of an agent. After the marriage, her husband raped her again for a whole month before she decided to return home with her family. Neelam’s father works in the metal industry in Mumbai and manages to send around 2-3000 INR every month. He only visits the family once in a year. Neelam goes to school and she is studying in 11th Class Standard. She is interested in doing BA in Arts after completing her high school 12th final year.
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  • (name changed) Neelam Bharadwaj, 16, is standing among some clothes inside her family’s home in Rajbhar village, located around 20 kilometres away from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Neelam was raped when she was 13 years old. After walking to a local shop on the main road neighbouring her village, she was forcibly picked up by two men. While one of them was raping her in the bushes, the other watched out. After some time, she managed to free herself and run away, hiding under a bridge in cold dirty water for several hours. When she returned home in the morning, the family was too afraid to go to the police, but activist Mangla Parsad, 34, from PVCHR, convinced the family to take the right action. The police initially insulted and threatened the family for bringing the facts up, but filed the official case (FIR) nevertheless. The rape was not mentioned in the file due to an inaccurate and superficial medical record that did not, in fact, mention it. Because of social shame facing by victims of rape in India, the family agreed to wed Neelam to an older man, with help of an agent. After the marriage, her husband raped her again for a whole month before she decided to return home with her family. Neelam’s father works in the metal industry in Mumbai and manages to send around 2-3000 INR every month. He only visits the family once in a year. Neelam goes to school and she is studying in 11th Class Standard. She is interested in doing BA in Arts after completing her high school 12th final year.
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  • Members of the Bling Ring used to spend time at various places across central Los Angeles: Teddy's (club inside the Roosevelt Hotel), 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90028, USA.
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  • Members of the Bling Ring used to spend time at various places across central Los Angeles: Guys & Dolls (now DOMINICK'S), 8713 Beverly Blvd, CA 90048, USA.
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  • Members of the Bling Ring used to spend time at various places across central Los Angeles: Les Deux (now SADIE KITCHEN LOUNGE), 1638 North Las Palmas Ave, CA 90028, USA.
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  • Thomas F. Metz, 63,.Lieutenant General US Army (retired) is portrayed at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington DC, USA. He was assigned the role of commander in Baghdad for the Joint Task Force, (JTF) and he oversaw all military operations in Iraq at the time, including the Battles for Fallujah in April and November 2004.
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  • Inmates are taking part to a stretching session with their female trainer during the time they regularly spend carrying out physical exercise and learning about the human body inside the luxurious Halden Fengsel, (prison) near Oslo, Norway.
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  • An inmate is taking part to a climbing session during the time regularly spent carrying out physical exercise and learning about the human body inside the luxurious Halden Fengsel, (prison) near Oslo, Norway.
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  • A day-tourist riding a bike is having a hard time along a wet and particularly muddy section of the Leh-Manali Highway leading up to Rotanlg La, (3,978 m) the nearest pass to the hill station of Manali, in Himachal Pradesh, 600 km north of New Delhi...The Leh-Manali Highway is the main road connection between the remote mountainous region of Ladhak, with capital in Leh (3300m), and Manali, HP, a famous hill station 600 km north of New Delhi. Open only four months a year, it is the second-highest motorable road in the world crossing passes up to 5300 meters. It was constructed by the Indian Army in order to develop the surrounding areas as well as monitoring the nearby borders with Kashmir and China. Due to its beauty and increased accessibility, the road to Leh and Ladhak has recently become a must-see destination for local and international tourists leaving the scorching Indian plains..
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  • Crystal Meth (aka 'tik'), an highly addictive chemical drug commonly used in impoverished neighbourhoods in the Western Cape, RSA. Meth is becoming increasingly popular amongst schoolchildren and it is not difficult to find kids as young as 12 with addiction. Statistics say that over a six month period, 94% of Meth users become addicted to it. Meth gives psychotic effects such as seeing or hearing things that are not there, and it is incline to induce violent behaviour. Meth is common between gang members, it is ideal to prepare a gun-man to hit, removing inhibitions, sharpening senses and fuelling aggression. It is easily smoked in pipes or bulbs, and it does not require a laboratory to be produced: in fact, having the right substances, it can be made even in a kitchen. High availability together with the really cheap price of 30-40 Rands per straw ( about 3-4 UK pounds) is helping to increase the abuse of this dangerous substance. Dealing Meth is also a very lucrative business which can turn a 2000 Rands (200 UK pounds) investment into 5000 Rands (500 UK pounds) in a short time. Tolerance develops quickly and higher doses are soon needed to obtain the same effect on the body. Chronic abuse can lead to out-of-control rages, violence, anxiety, confusion and mood disturbances. Meth affects many parts of the central neurous system and if prolonged it does not only affects behaviour but literally changes the brain in fundamental and longstanding ways.
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  • Youngsters on the streets of the impoverished neighbourhood of Heideveld, Cape Town, RSA. Here in front of their house. (Marvin in the middle and former gangster Fuad on the right). 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 (?wannabes?) 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.
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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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  • A young man is standing by his bracelets stall 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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  • The owner of a house transformed into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, is talking business with an associate while local children are painting and decorating the bracelets. 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 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 boys and girls are aligning the ends of bracelets produced in coils by 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 boy is moving bundles of just painted glass bracelets inside a house transformed into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', in 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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  • A group of young women are decorating glass bracelets inside a house transformed into a small-scale workshop in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', in 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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  • A mother (right) and her young daughter (left) are joining bracelets with the use of a gas flame inside their home, transformed into a small-scale workshop, in the slum surrounding Firozabad, renowned as the 'glass city', in 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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  • 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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  • Geetan Jali Panda, 34, the wife of Biranchi Das, the recently murdered coach of Budhia Singh, is remembering her time along his husband by the entrance of their Judo Hall, in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa State, on Saturday, May 17, 2008. On May 1, 2006, Budhia completed a record breaking 65 km run from Jagannath temple, Puri to Bhubaneswar. He was accompanied by his coach Biranchi Das and by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). On 8th May 2006, a Government statement had ordered that he stopped running. The announcement came after doctors found the boy had high blood pressure and cardiological stress. As of 13th August 2007 Budhia's coach Biranchi Das was arrested by Indian police on suspicion of torture. Singh has accused his coach of beating him and withholding food. Das says Singh's family are making up charges as a result of a few petty rows. On April 13, Biranchi Das was shot dead in Bhubaneswar, in what is believed to be an event unconnected with Budhia, although the police is investigating the case and has made an arrest, a local goon named Raja Archary, which is now in police custody. **Italy and China Out**
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  • Geetan Jali Panda, 34, the wife of Biranchi Das, the recently murdered coach of Budhia Singh, is remembering her time along his husband while sitting in her office near one of his pictures (right), in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa State, on Saturday, May 17, 2008. On May 1, 2006, Budhia completed a record breaking 65 km run from Jagannath temple, Puri to Bhubaneswar. He was accompanied by his coach Biranchi Das and by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). On 8th May 2006, a Government statement had ordered that he stopped running. The announcement came after doctors found the boy had high blood pressure and cardiological stress. As of 13th August 2007 Budhia's coach Biranchi Das was arrested by Indian police on suspicion of torture. Singh has accused his coach of beating him and withholding food. Das says Singh's family are making up charges as a result of a few petty rows. On April 13, Biranchi Das was shot dead in Bhubaneswar, in what is believed to be an event unconnected with Budhia, although the police is investigating the case and has made an arrest, a local goon named Raja Archary, which is now in police custody. **Italy and China Out**
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