poverty

A portrait series on homeless children living under the famous 2nd Hoogly Bridge of Calcutta, India. Education is yet to reach them. Healthcare facilities are inaccessible. Calcutta, In...

The sixtieth day of a sit-in protest by workers of Trenitalia employees in underway. Trenitalia has removed the night trains to Nice, Monaco and Vienna by laying off 1,000 worker. Italy...

Students of Punjab University are protesting against the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. PIC gave drugs to patients, which has resulted in 140 deaths and some 300 patients have been aff...

Transportation workers are protesting against the city district government's decision to move the bus terminal from Badami Bagh to Thokar Niaz Baig. Demonstrators say this decision...

The Msamaria Mwema Children's Home in Nairobi, that caters for children whose parents died of a HIV/Aids infection. It has more than one hundred orphans at the last count. Kenya. 1...

Since 2006, Israel has seen a steep rise in the number of migrants arriving from Africa, in particular from Eritrea, Sudan and Ivory Coast. It is estimated over 20,000 entered illegally...

As the world observes Global Orphan Week attention is being drawn to Haiti, whose population of 9 million has a staggering 370,000 orphans, even before the 2010 earthquake and recent hu...

The spirit and solidarity of Tunisians have come together to improve poor families lives in northwestern Tunisia, especially with the continuous wave of cold weather and high snowfall. ...

Grade III and IV employees of DMCH take out a procession on the Dhaka University campus protesting against the government's plan to turn the institution into a full-fledged medical...

A Palestinian family live in poor conditions in a small house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The camp has one of the highest population densities in the world....

Israeli bulldozers and planners flatten land in Issawiya to make way for a national park. The leveling of land in this area is extremely disputed between Palestinians and Israelis. Jeru...

The fifth annual joint circumcision of 1,000 poor children is held on the celebration of the Muslim prophet Muhammad's birthday. A social islamic organization sponsored the event. ...

26th Surajkund Crafts Mela begins with more than 400 craftperson will display and demonstrate their finest crafts work that is set to capture your hearts. India. 6th February 2012

State-run housing authority RAJUK start dismantling the structures built illegally along the lake in Dhaka’s posh Gulshan area, in line with the High Court’s order to demarcate the lake...

Internally displaced families from the southern provinces have urged the government to provide them with basic amenities of life in their make-shift arrangements outside Kabul. Afghanis...

File images: Four years on since the extreme violence of a contested presidential election caused the deaths of over 1,500 people and forced a further 600,000 to flee, tens of thousands...

Located over 1,000 meters above sea level, Thala suffers every winter by the harsh climate, the extreme poverty of its inhabitants in an area that receives no aid from the state. Thala,...

Traders at Qissa Khawani provide food to the poor and needy on Eid Milad Ulnabi day, a traditional Muslim holy day. Peshawar, Pakistan. 5th February 2012

Members from a social organization form a human chain to raise awareness against cancer on the eve of World Cancer Day. Dhaka, Bangladesh. 4th January 2012

Disabled people and their supporters brave freezing weather to stage an hour-long protest outside the UK offices of Atos, protesting against unfair testing for fitness to work and benef...