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  • An Afghan woman and her child wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • A Kashmiri  child visits a Sufi shrine in Srinagar, the Indian held summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.   Sufiism is a gentle brand of Islam that is mystical and considered by some to be a blend of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.  It has been gradually pushed aside my more fundamentalist forms of Islam orignating in Pakistan.
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  • A child of a mahout, tries to touch an elephant that is used for tourists in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. A mahout is a person who drives an elephant.  Usually, a mahout starts as a boy in the 'family business' when he is assigned an elephant early in its life and they would be attached to each other throughout the elephant's life. The Indian Elephant  is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to mainland Asia. Since 1986, Elephas maximus has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. The species is pre-eminently threatened by habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation.
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  • An Angolan woman pleads with an aid worker to look at her child who is suffering from malnutrition in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan women grieve after a guard and child were killed by unknown armed men in a shooting spree at an orphanage  in Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Family members of a child and guard who were killed during a late night looting of an orphanage sit next to the blood spattered entrance way to the school in Huambo, Angola. It is a common scene in Angola's brutal 26 year-civil which has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child practices walking on crutches at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Family members of a child and guard who were killed during a late night looting of an orphanage sit next to the blood spattered entrance way to the school in Huambo, Angola. It is a common scene in Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war which has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A child holds a mushroom in a village in Rwanda in 2004, ten years after the Rwandan genocide when at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus in Rwanda were killed.  Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage of the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres.
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  • A Kashmiri child waits outside in a cordoned area along with hundreds of other villagers that were evacuated around 4 a.m. March 28, 2002 before a gun battle between a militant and Indian security forces broke out in Budgam district west of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The muslim militant hid in a mosque in a 20-hour siege. It was the fourth time in two months that separatists had sought refuge in a mosque in the Himalayan region. Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Jammu and Kashmir. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training Islamic militants. Pakistan denies the charge and says it only offers moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri separatists.
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  • An Angolan child practices walking on crutches at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan child stands in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan children play in one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Not only has Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war destroyed much of the country's infrastructure but it has displaced around two million people. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Evaristo Tinka, 19, from Katabola, Angola is fed intravaneously with glucose at a Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) emergency hospital, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children carry water on their heads through their small village in the Chitrakoot District of  Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan  plays in a camp for displaced persons near Huambo, Angola. Non-governmental Aid agencies helped the refugees build the houses after they were chased out of their own villages because of fighting. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Two and a half-year-old Shuma Bibi sits with her aunt in a make shift refugee camp after they fled their village of Laliyal which was on the International Border between Pakistan and India. Indian and Pakistani troops continue to exchange heavy mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire along the line that divides Kashmir between them and have a million troops amassed along the border.
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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of  Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition are treated in Kuito, Angola. The irony of the t-shirt "Party Naked" is lost in a brutal 26 year-civil which has displaced around two million people..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan who is suffering from severe malnutrition is treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan working for a humanitarian aid agency makes latrines nearby the town of Kuito in the Bie Province of Angola to be used in the refugee camps for internally displaced people. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A refugee camp outside the capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan who lost her leg to a land mine waits to get fitted for a prosethetic leg at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans walk past one of the many destroyed buildings in the town of Huambo in Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan children attempt to surf on their hand made surf boards which they carved out of driftwood after they watched French foreigners surfing on the beaches outside of the capital of  Luanda in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • People walk along the main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola at dusk in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Valentina Cayovo, 38, stands on her crutches inside her home which she rebuilt after guerrilla UNITA forces destroyed it. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan who lost her leg to a land mine gets fitted for a prosethetic leg at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan man who lost his leg to a landmine walks several miles on crutches from a camp for internally displaced people to get food in the town of Huambo in Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition are treated in Kuito, Angola. The irony of the t-shirt "Party Naked" is lost in a brutal 26 year-civil war, which has displaced around two million people. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" walks through the destroyed town of Kuito as a man who lost his leg to a landmine walks on crutches behind him.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgum to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people of Angola, in March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan plays in a camp for displaced persons near Huambo, Angola. Non-governmental Aid agencies helped the refugees build the houses after they were chased out of their own villages because of fighting. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medical facility for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Displaced Angolans walk at least twenty miles to the city of Kuito with sacks of charcoal on their heads in order to sell it so they have money to buy food and medicines. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Displaced Angolan children create toys out of cans that brought food distributed by the United States government in a refugee camp in Huambo in March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale).
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children uses their heads to carry wood back to their villages in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Women work in the fields gathering wood in the Chitrakoot District of Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot District, Uttar Pradesh, India: Children carry water on their heads through their small village in the Chitrakoot District of  Uttar Pradesh. In India woman are responsible for carrying out many hard labored tasks. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India: Dalit women come together for a conference led by the women's group Vanangana in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India February 12, 2006.  Chitrakoot district has a high level of poverty, feudalism, violence. Some of the women are a part of a group that brought out a newspaper in the local dialect for a rural audience, and to create awareness. Khabar Lahariya, is a fortnightly rural newspaper produced by the group of seven, predominantly dalit and kol women. The publication began in May 2002 and presently has a print run of 1500.  In Chitrakoot district, as in other parts of India, mainstream newspapers do not reach large sections of the rural population nor do they meet their local news and information needs. Khabar Lahariya provides a mix of news, information and entertainment. Khabar Lahariya's hallmark is the local. Its strength is credible investigative reportage. It covers current political news, stories on the functioning of panchayats, the bureaucracy, schools, hospitals and reports atrocities on women and marginalized sections of society.(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Truku Pema Wangyal, 5 years, was recognized at 4 years to be a reincarnated Buddhist Lama in Ura village. Bhutan. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Villagers who lost their homes to elephants wake up on the floor of a neighbors house  near Tezpur in Assam, eastern India January 6, 2004.  Villagers have been forced to stay up lighting fires, banging tin cans, throwing firecrackers to keep elephants from destroying their crops, homes and somtimes killing people. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by the deforestation caused by encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)

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  • A remote area inside an Assamese national park and reserved land that has been encroached on is shown December 28, 2003 The encroachers are causing tremendous deforestation as they sell the wood and clear the land for agriculture. Forsetry officials chase them off the land but they come back almost immediately after the clearing operation and continue to live in this protected area. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" stands in the center of a town in the interior region where fighting between the rebels and government forces left the edifices in ruins. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Houses built for foreign families working for oil companies  sit in sharp contrast to the shanty towns that most Angolans have in the capital of  Luanda in Angola.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Valentina Cayovo, 38, stands on her crutches inside her home which she rebuilt after guerrilla UNITA forces destroyed it. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan who lost her leg to a land mine gets fitted for a prosethetic leg at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans who are suffering from severe malnutrition wait to be treated in Kuito, Angola. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan man who lost his leg to a landmine walks several miles on crutches from a camp for internally displaced people to get food in the town of Huambo in Angola, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children at an orphanage wait to eat at a feeding center in Huambo in the interior region of Angola.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates.  .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medicine for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million peopl and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds of internally displaced people in Angola, wait in line to be analyzed by aid workers in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medicine for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Evaristo Tinka, 19, from Katabola, Angola is fed intravaneously with glucose at a (MSF) Medicines San Frontiers emergency hospital, Friday March 3, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Displaced Angolan children create toys out of cans that brought food distributed by the United States government in a refugee camp in Huambo in March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Displaced Angolans walk at least twenty miles to the city of Kuito with sacks of charcoal on their heads in order to sell it so they have money to buy food and medicines. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan children attempt to surf on their hand made surf boards which they carved out of driftwood after they watched French foreigners surfing on the beaches outside of the capital of  Luanda  in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Angolan soldier known as "Bernardo" walks through the destroyed town of Kuito as a man who lost his leg to a landmine walks on crutches behind him.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • People walk along the main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola at dusk in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgham to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people in the town of Kuito March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Homes that Angolans live in are in sharp contrast to the homes for foreigners and government officials in the capital of Luanda in Angola in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A make-shift hospital in the interior of Angola serves as the only medicine for a society whose brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million peopl and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The capital of Luanda in Angola is shown in this file photo.  President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year.  Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgum to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people of Angola, in March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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