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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, right, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, left, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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 Indian baby displaced by the fighting along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India sleeps inside a police station in Samba in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, May 21, 2002. Fears of another war between India and Pakistan grow as a moderate Kashmiri leader, Abdul Gane Lone was shot by unidendified gunmen in Srinagar, India. Lone was one of the leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, a group of political and religious parties that advocate Muslim-majority Kashmir's separation from predominantly Hindu India.
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Afghan girls wait to be visited by a doctor  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Afghanistan has a shortage of female doctors whihc makes women and children even more vulnerable. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • 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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  • Tourists ride domesticated elephants in the pre dawn hours to catch a glimps of  wild rhinos, tigers, elephants and other animals in the Kazaringa National Park in Assam, India January 5, 2003/(Ami Vitale)
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  • The family of a woman who was killed by a wild elephant mourns her death in a village outside of Tezpur, Assam December 28, 2003. (Ami Vitale)
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  • The family of a woman who was killed by a wild elephant mourns her death in a village outside of Tezpur, Assam December 28, 2003. (Ami Vitale)
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  • GERIHUN, SIERRA LEONE - JULY 18:Liberian refugees walk through their plastic tents  at the Gerihun camp near Bo, Sierra Leone July 18,2002. Sierra Leone is infamous for some of the decade's worst war crimes and the irony is that as Sierra Leonians are finally able to return home, their neighbors across the border are suffering from their own tragic decade old conflict and flooding into the camps which once housed the internally displaced Sierra Leonians. Liberia's rebels have waged an insurgency for three years, but have stepped up attacks recently against President Charles Taylor's government. Taylor, a former warlord who won presidential elections in 1997, says he is being targeted by some of his rivals from the 1989-96 civil war.  The heavy toll on civilians in the fighting poses a threat to the stability of other countries in the region, particularly Sierra Leone. There are about 50,000 refugees in Sierra Leone now according to the World Food Program and 100,000 internally displaced people within Liberia now. Sierra Leone, which has the U.N's largest peacekeeping mission with 17,3000 troops, is recovering from a ruthless 10-year-old war and held presidential elections in May. (photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A 14 year old panda named YeYe holds her young cub at Wolong Giant Panda reserve. The mother is captive born and her baby is being trained to be released back into the wild. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • Fourteen baby captive bred pandas sleep  on a blanket at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an, Sichuan,<br />
China. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Ali Ipak 's wife Ayse makes bread with her neighbor, Elif (in red)  and daughter Emel, (in blue) as other neighbors Sengul (wearing white and standing)  and Saliha come to show off her new baby, Dudunur December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Kadija visits Fatna Adem, 28, just a few days after she helped her give birth to a baby girl in a village in Barentu, Eritrea August 30, 2006.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A baby captive bred panda sits in a basket as it is moved from a building at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base<br />
in Ya'an, Sichuan, China.
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  • Fourteen baby captive bred pandas sleep  on a blanket at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an, Sichuan,<br />
China. Thanks to hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, there are now only an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild.
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  • Orphaned baby southern white rhinos are fed milk and then take a nap at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya. The Conservancy hosts an immense range of diversity. Yet Lewa’s mission is not only to protect wildlife, but to act as a catalyst for conservation across northern Kenya and beyond by supporting development in the communities outside the Conservancy’s boundaries, Lewa has become the leading role model for sustainable wildlife conservation throughout East Africa.(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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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  • Ali Ipak 's wife Ayse makes bread with her neighbor, Elif (in red)  and daughter Emel, (in blue) as other neighbors Sengul (wearing white and standing)  and Saliha come to show off her new baby, Dudunur December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Ali Ipak 's wife Ayse makes bread with her neighbor, Elif (in red)  and daughter Emel, (in blue) as other neighbors Sengul (wearing white and standing)  and Saliha come to show off her new baby, Dudunur December 13, 2005 in central Turkey, Konya in Kutoren district, about 400 kilometers from Ankara.  (Ami Vitale)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Kadija visits Fatna Adem, 28, just a few days after she helped her give birth to a baby girl in a village in Barentu, Eritrea August 30, 2006.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Kadija visits Fatna Adem, 28, just a few days after she helped her give birth to a baby girl in a village in Barentu, Eritrea August 30, 2006.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Kadija visits Fatna Adem, 28, just a few days after she helped her give birth to a baby girl in a village in Barentu, Eritrea August 30, 2006.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Kadija visits Fatna Adem, 28, just a few days after she helped her give birth to a baby girl in a village in Barentu, Eritrea August 30, 2006.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Coptic christians pray outside St. Mary's church in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 had her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab. The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A baby sleeps inside the house of Mr. Amar Singh Verma, who is the "sanchuluk" or computer operator in the agricultural village of Siradi, about 65 kilometers from Bhopal, India March 1, 2005. The company ITC has installed solar power and computers in the villages so farmers can trade their crops online and shopping malls next to the agricultural markets where they bring their harvest. Already their lifestyles are improving as they are able to communicate with the outside world, have electricity and most importantly wait for good prices to sell their crops. Ami Vitale
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  • A baby captive bred panda sits in a basket as it is moved from a building at the panda breeding center of Bifengxia Panda Base<br />
in Ya'an, Sichuan, China.
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  • Orphaned baby southern white rhinos are fed milk and then take a nap at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya. The Conservancy hosts an immense range of diversity. Yet Lewa’s mission is not only to protect wildlife, but to act as a catalyst for conservation across northern Kenya and beyond by supporting development in the communities outside the Conservancy’s boundaries, Lewa has become the leading role model for sustainable wildlife conservation throughout East Africa.(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. 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 Nepalese woman and her baby eat the sweet national flower of Nepal outside of a Maoist cutlrual program where thousands of villagers come to hear  traditional song and dance as well as a political speech by one fo the local communist committee members. The Maoists are seeking to overthrow the monarchy and set up a democraticlaly elected Communist regime. Since 1996, over 11,000 people have been killed in the brutal conflict. (Ami Vitale
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Tiblits neighbor Zaid Tesheme, 31 has her baby baptized with the name Mihreteab inside Coptic St. Mary's chapel in the village of Fithi which means "justice" on the outskirts of  Barentu, Eritrea August 27, 2006. During this ceremony, . The donkey that Tiblets received from the womens union "Hamade", helped them prepare for the celebration afterwards.   (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29:  Afghan women talk around their dinner table as a baby sits cradled next the the silverware before the food is brought out during a wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan baby who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, sits in an empty tent after her family was relocated to Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • RUKUM DISTRICT, NEPAL, APRIL 20, 2004:  A Maoist  insurgent holds a baby at a village in Rukum district April 20, 2004. Analysts and diplomats estimate there about 15,000-20,000  fighters, including many women, backed by 50,000 "militia".  Though the movement uses violence to acheive theri goals, many say that the positive effects in the areas that are dominated by them are that there is there is less abuse because people are not allowed to drink alcohol or have mulitple wives.  they collect taxes and have set up civil administrations, and "people's courts" to settle rows. They also raise money by taxing villagers and foreign trekkers. Though young, they are fearsome fighters and  specialise in night attacks and hit-and-run raids. They are tough in Nepal's rugged terrain, full of thick forests and deep ravines and the 150,000 government soldiers are not enough to combat this growing movement that models itself after the Shining Path of Peru. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Hundreds, perhaps thousands of villagers, forest rangers, police and wildlife experts attempt to drive a herd of elephants from a village on the outskirts of Tezpur, Assam in Eastern India December 22, 2003.  India and its sacred elephants are threatened by poaching, deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result of the loss of land, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. During this drive, a baby elephant, only days old was seperating from his mother and faces probable death without her. He is now at a rescue center in Kaziranga. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A Malawian baby is weighed at a nutritional center for mothers and their children in Mwanza District which is about 100 kilometers west of Blantyre, Malawi, July 2, 2002.   Fabiano was one of many severly malnourished children who came to the hospital suffering from the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.   photo by Ami Vitale
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  • Aichetou Mint Dahi helped Mariem Mint Cheikh and her son, Vadal Ould Talebned, whom she holds,  walk 18 km to Gaat Teidouma in the Affole region of Mauritania to get to a health post. The baby was weak and emaciated and was eventually referred to the capital of Nouakchott which is several days journey through the unforgiving desert ..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Adnan, a keeper feeds 3 orphaned baby rhinos at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. The young rhino on the right is the newest addition and was orphaned when poachers killed his mother on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The calf was immediately moved to Lewa and is being hand-raised.
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  • Abi Taco holds a photo of herself as a baby. Her mother tragically died when she was a child and her grandfather raised her. He insists that she should have an education and bought her a bicycle so she can travel to a better school miles away from her village in the remote village in Guinea Bissau. Her grandfather is an enlightened man. Most men coming from this conservative Muslim village of Fulani's believe the girls should stay at home and work.
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  • Mariem Mint Cheikh holds her son, Vadal Ould Talebned, as they wait in a health post after walking 18 km through the desert to Gaat Teidouma in the Affole region of Mauritania. The baby was weak and emaciated and was eventually referred to the capital of Nouakchott which is several days journey through the desert ..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ive year-old Awa Balde clings to her mother moments after she was circumcised. The age at which girls are subjected to this ranges from when they are very small babies to young adulthood.
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  • Panda costumes that are worn by caretakers hang inside the<br />
employee room at the Wolong Nature Reserve managed by the China<br />
Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Babies are born<br />
in a quiet moss and as they grow they are moved to progressively<br />
bigger, more complex and “wilder” enclosures, eventually learning to<br />
climb and forage for themselves. From birth,a panda slated for release<br />
will never see a human, its training administered equally by its<br />
mother and its unseen keepers in panda costumes.
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  • Muslims who had begged police to protect them the day before huddle in the wreckage of their burned out homes March 2, 2002 after a mob of Hindu neighbors attacked them from across a street of Ahmedabad, India. They said that 2 babies were burned alive as well as countless others who were killed in the worst religious violence India has seen in 10 years.
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