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  • Refugees from Africa find it harder to prove their need for asylum. It leaves them to fend off for themselves. Without legal assistance, often they escape the legal system altogether putting themselves in further danger of exploitation. Without work, money and a place to stay, many African refugees resort to live in city parks or anywhere that can fend them. The Sudanese refugee centre in Athens is an informal space for the African refugees.  Amir from Sudan says  ‘it is a safe haven for the African communities as being away from the street protects them from being a target of hate crimes’. Amir, Athens.
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  • Davoud, Sofyen and Devante outside the White City youth club.
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  • No war in Syria
  • Anti Fascism Demo in Whitehall, London.
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  • The aftermath of a 1st of May protest in Berlin's Kreuzberg area. Many left wing groups take the opportunity on this day to avenge the rising capitalist thinking.
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  • The Slut Walk started off from Hyde Park in London  when hundreds of women took part. The women were demanding that they should be able to wear as much or as little as they like without facing sexual harassment by men. The movement started off in Toronto this year when a police officer said that women should be dressed modestly to avoid becoming victims.
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  • Palestinian protest for the Palestine cause. Berlin, Germany.
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  • In some of the squats there are people take refuge in order to survive while their permit to stay in Germany is pending. Their life is very much marginalized in the outer world however within the walls of the squat they feel at home.
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  • A commission from Save the Children, UK to work a project on the Roma communities in Tuzla in Bosnia Hercegovina.
    SAVE THE CHILDREN (Bosnia & Herc..ina)
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  • Roma in the illegal camp of Zitkovac in the outskirts of Mitrovice.  The camp lies next to the rubbish dump of the town. Roma are unwanted by both the Serbian and the Kosovan side of the town. They survive with some support from humanitarian organisations and by selling things they found in the skips.
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  • Boxhagener markt in Boxhagener Platz in Berlin is the local market where many squatters sell their things or exchange them without money involved.  The concept behind is that one can live without superflous things and buys or exchange for what one really needs. Normally the things that they sell are handmade objects like bracelets, drawing, printed shirts and so forth.
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  • Rochelle, White City
    Rochelle
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  • Sali Ibrahim
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  • Travellers have been living at Dale Farm from more than 10 years
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  • the roma population in the town of Kjustendil are segregated in a ghetto area around the river that divides the town
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    4n10 / Save the Children
  • A commission to document the work of Save the Children in Sarajevo in Bosnia Hercegovina.  This is  the Serbian side of the city of Sarajevo where the NGO run by Save the Children UK offers play time to children with psychological and/or physical disabilities.
    SAVE THE CHILDREN
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  • Town lives are poor with high unemployment and hardly anything for the young poeple to aspire to.
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  • Commissioned by Metro to take portraits of a male sex worker.
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  • Liupanshi, South West China
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  • Large groups of coal miners live in the proximity of the mines.  They live together in a small space sharing all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
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  • For over a year, Rachel has been living in a hostel room for young mothers with her infant baby. The hostel is closing down due to financial cuts and her future is uncertain. Rachel, 2014.
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  • "I don't have enough money. Everything is on top of you, you do the best you can, face the causes, and plead your case" Linda 2012
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  • Tasha is 19 and she has been homeless for three years now. She does not like her small room but she is grateful she is not in the streets. Tasha.
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  • Sandy cannot walk because of diabetes. She sleeps and stays in the living room for most part of the days. Sandy, June 2013.
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  • "living in an overcrowding conditions is a total nightmare. You cannot put your life in perspective". Linda
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  • Have you had any food?<br />
Nikkunj: I don't remember.I have to go to the post-office but I cannot even move.<br />
Nikkunj, 2013
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  • The communal room in the hostel is hardly ever visited by anyone.<br />
Nikkunj.
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  • "Everything is packed away, ready to move, yet we don't know when we are moving." Alison
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  • "For us to be normal we wouldn't have to think of having no space, but we do all the time." Alison,  2012.
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  • Harry Greatwood, calligrapher, activist, resident of West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates.
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  • After the war, some villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment and left in derelict homes.
    Widow of War, Kosovo
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  • Stubice border city to Frankfurt Oder. A view from the passport control area over the bridge separating Germany and Poland. Stubice, Poland.
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  • Vera, kosovo refugee in her temporary accomodation in East London. She is posing with friends from Kosovo. he majority of refugees have their right to stay in the UK permanently pending. Many suffer from this stressful situation where they see themselves as living in a limbo, unable to look for work and to move freely.  Often the bond between the community of refugees is strong supported by the need to keep some of their culture and costumes.
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  • A father stands in front of the grave of his son being killed during the war in the Balkans.
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  • Every 10th of Moharam, the Shia Muslim mourn the death of the prophet Hussein forming a procession in the streets. Some followers show their grief by hurting themselves. A reportage on the "Ashora" in Tehran, Iran.
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  • Every 10th of Moharam, the Shia Muslim mourn the death of the prophet Hussein forming a procession in the streets. Some followers show their grief by hurting themselves. A reportage on the "Ashora" in Tehran, Iran.
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  • Linda is a child from Kosovo.  Her parents sought refuge in London Uk 5 years ago. Their status is still pending, which means that at any time they can be asked by the Home Office to leave the country. Meanwhile, many children, some even born in the new country adapt and don't know any other place which to call home.
    Linda Kosovo Refugee
  • Women are praying. Shiraz, Iran.
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  • Every year on May Day in Berlin there are fights between the various left group with the police. Every year the police disperse the crowds with water tanks as often attacked with rocks or whatever at hand. Berlin, Germany.
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  • London police during a first of May protest.
    1st May London
  • Protesters outside the Parliament demanded that the English and Americans pull out from Iraq, London, UK.
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  • Young people in the streets of Liupanshi, China.
    Beijing
  • A reflection of a window of   a hairdresser shop. Stubice, Poland.
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  • A security standing guard outside a small illegal coal mine on the Laoying mountains in China,
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain, an illegal coal mine. China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world, but it has also one of the  worse recorded mining conditions. To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. The safety measures in the illegal coal mines are almost no-existing. To name, some trolleys pushed by the miners often escape the broken rails, there is only one exit and entry point...
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  • Overground coal is extracted and carried into wicker backets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of backets.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China is an illegal coal mine. Normally, these are run by a business man in complicity with a local sheriff. Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small. The miners are often recruited among migrant workers with a farming background.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China.  An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simpy shut and covered as if they never existed..In coal miners run illegaly accidents occur more frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines are run on just one point of entrance and exist makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.
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  • For the illegal coal miners their accommodation in very poor and lacks of basic standards. The workers co-habit in one room. Yushe Coal Mine, Laoying Mountains, China.
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  • Coal miners often live in the closest villages or next to the mines. Wangjiazhai is a typical coal mining community.  Those that live in this village work in the mines nearby, in the refinery and or in surface mining.  This is the main square of Wangjiazhai village with some of the coal miners returned from work.
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  • A coal miner working overground digs and carries coal in wicker buckets. Wangjiazhai, China
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  • wjanghazai, a coal mining village in Guizho, South West China. Miners collecting coal in an open cast area in the middle of the village.
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  • Many of the villagers of Wangjiazhai work with coal from selling to refining, digging and collecting.  Their homes and lifestyle are quite poor and coal seems to be part of it from being a source of income to be is used for heating and cooking.
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  • Families live close to the mines.  Their homes and lifestyle is connected to mining and to the use of coal.  A woman and child outside their home.
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  • Commissioned by Landsvirkjun, the National Power Company of Iceland,  to work on a project to highlight the skills, the multiculturalism and the magnitude of the project which was to create the largest dam in Europe, Karahnjukar dam in Iceland.
    LANDSVIRKJUN (National Power Company..and)
  • A woman sits in a coffee shop situated in a remote area on the north-east part of Iceland. The coffee shop was temporarily opened to cater the workers building a dam.
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  • Over 5.000 workers from around the world were employed in the construction of the Karahnjukar dam in Iceland and a temporary camp was built for this community.
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  • A roma camp in Mitrovice living on the border to Serbia. Both countries reject their stay.
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  • Roma in Tuzla in an enclave in Bosnia Hercegovina. Roma are segregated and to survive they rely on support from humanitarian aid.
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  • Roma gypsies in the roma ghetto of Kjustendil in Bulgaria.
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  • Second day of a roma gypsy wedding in the roma ghetto of Kjustendil, Bulgaria. The woman's loss of virginity is celebrated by the roma population in the ghetto. They are married during their teens to ensure that she is virgin.
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  • Ageja Sokoli holding a photo of her husband, who was taken by serbian army. Her four sons and her husband were taken away by the serbian police in a night raid.  She has never seen them since. Their bodies have never been found. She is holding a picture of her husband.
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  • Widows of war receive 60Euros for maintenance. With this meagre income they can hardly make ends meet. Often if they have a son, he is going to work at an early age to help out the family.
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  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in bombed homes and with no one to turn to for support.
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  • In the outskirts of Skenderaj, I visited this lady who has 5 children to fend off by herself after her husband was taken away by the serbian army and she has never seen him again. She feels fortunate that she has some land and is able to feed her children in this way.
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  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in unfinished homes and no one to turn to for any support.
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  • Serbian enclave in Kosovo.
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  • A portrait of Sue in her home in London.
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  • Serbian enclave in Kosovo. A youth center in the enclave founded by the Italian Ngo Amici dei Bambini.
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  • Kosovo, kids playing football outside during school time.
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  • Roma in the illegal camp of Zitkovac in the outskirts of Mitrovice.  The camp lies next to the rubbish dump of the town. Roma are unwanted by both the Serbian and the Kosovan side of the town. They survive with some support from humanitarian organisations and by selling things they found in the skips.
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  • Roma in the illegal camp of Zitkovac in the outskirts of Mitrovice.  The camp lies next to the rubbish dump of the town. Roma are unwanted by both the Serbian and the Kosovan side of the town. They survive with some support from humanitarian organisations and by sellin things they found in the skips.
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