Four sisters plait each other's hair in the town of Kut, Iraq.
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Nafisa pulls back her curtains in a remote village in the Kurdistan region who have been displaced multiple times over the past one hundred years.
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Shia pilgrims rest in the women's quarters of Imam Ali shrine in Najaf during the Arba'een pilgrimage
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Gulf Cup screening in Basra
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Ahmed Rezani in Kurdistan region of Iraq
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A man watches volunteers search for bodies in the old quarter of Antakya City in Hatay Province, Turkey
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Koya, Kurdistan region of Iraq
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Khushboo is from the Musuhar caste, one of the most marginalised communities in India. The threat of child marriage and trafficking is critically high amongst these communities. Female empowerment organisations like Nari Gunjun provide support, safe houses and education for young girls. Khushboo now lives at Nari Gunjun's boarding school in Bihar and has won nationally in karate.
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Ahmed Rezani, a founding guide on the Zagros Mountain Trail, near Rezan village in Choman.
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Syrians protest against lack of international aid while a man sits on the rubble of his home in the town of Atarib, Aleppo province
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Crowds celebrate Iraq beating Yemen during the Gulf Cup on Basra's corniche
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Relatives of patients await news at a general hospital treating poorer, vulnerable communities in Baghdad.
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Boys play inside a washing vat in Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai
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Herat, Afghanistan
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My mother, Camilla
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Among cole flowers in Rojava, Syria
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An Asian elephant stands visibly traumatised, chained to a temple pillar following a six-hour procession. It was paraded through the streets of Varanasi, noisy with crowds and rocketing fireworks, in the build up to Diwali, the festival of lights. The elephant was swaying and its bloodshot eyes swirled, as its owner looked on anxiously. There are an estimated 3,600 domesticated Asian elephants in India, belonging either to the government, wealthy families or temples and used in festivals throughout the year. They are an endangered species, their wild counterparts under threat from habitat loss and conflict with humans in agricultural areas.
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Sun bear in Medan, Sumatra. Sun bears are the world’s rarest bears, yet are commonly exploited for their gall bladders and bile. In traditional Chinese medicine the bile is thought to treat a range of ailments, from hangovers to hepatitis. Cubs are farmed, sometimes living permanently with a catheter used to drain the bile.
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