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  • Footwear is left outside a school supported by Fairtrade premium payments in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
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  • A horserider in the indigenous Tolupán territory of Montaña de la Flor, Honduras.
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • Tomasa Mendez Morales takes a rest from digging in a field. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_029.jpg
  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_048.jpg
  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_034.jpg
  • Yanina Avila, 18, daughter of assassinated Tolupán indigenous leader José de Los Santos Sevilla, in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor in Honduras.<br />
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Yanina talks of her father's fear of encroaching mining and logging companies, and nearby ladinos who want to take Tolupán land, and how defenceless they are against them. While non-indigenous areas are deforested, the rivers dry or poisoned, the indigenous territories have woodland and fresh water in the rivers.<br />
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Eight Tolupán leaders have been assassinated in this area. Others have been assassinated in another Tolupán area in Yoro.<br />
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"My father died protecting this forest. They will carry on killing people who look after nature, maybe until we're all gone".
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  • The road into Montaña de la Flor, Tolupán indigenous reserve, Honduras
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_052.jpg
  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_017.jpg
  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Tolupanes__20170218_...jpg
  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_015.jpg
  • Riot Police outside the National Automous University of Honduras, the UNAH, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The throw stones and use catapults against the university students. Daily running battles between students and police are routine. The students sometimes block the traffic outside the university in protest against the government of Juan Orlando Hernández.
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  • Riot Police outside the National Automous University of Honduras, the UNAH, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The throw stones and use catapults against the university students. Daily running battles between students and police are routine. The students sometimes block the traffic outside the university in protest against the government of Juan Orlando Hernández.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190128_41...jpg
  • Bertita Cáceres is hugged by friends and family outside the supreme court in Tegucigalpa as sentence is passed on David Castillo for the assassination of Berta Cáceres, her mother.
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  • Father Ismael Moreno SJ, known as Padre Melo, talks about press freedom in Honduras and faith.<br />
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Media in Honduras is intimately linked to the groups who have power. Moreover, power in Honduras is ultimately expressed through the capacity to control the media.  The well-established national media in the country is associated with the five powerful groups that exist in the country. Those are Grupo FICOHSA, Grupo Atlántida, Grupo Dinant, Grupo Terra and Grupo Karim’s. These groups bring together the 17 most powerful groups in Honduras, the 17 most powerful surnames in Honduras. <br />
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The media, the TV, radio and printed press, normally follow the script, that they shouldn’t intimidate these groups, and ultimately express the interests of these powerful groups.<br />
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So, the media in Honduras is extremely conditioned by the owners, who are part of these economic groups, and who have more power than any government. They are the real government, and they have the ability to veto any sort of candidature that could affect their interests. These are the five groups that were behind the coup of 2009 and these are the five groups that are behind the re-election of Juan Orlando Hernandez, and these are the five groups that have the power of veto over any candidate that has the shadow of Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Manuel Zelaya Rosales represents a threat to these five powerful groups. <br />
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These five groups are tightly linked to the embassy of the United States of America. For the government of the United States, Honduras has a geopolitical interest, without an interest of what life is like in the country. They are wary of political instability, they prefer alliances with the old politicians, even if they are tainted with corruption and are responsible for human rights abuses. <br />
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The media are property, in these sectors of power. So, for the media that aren’t in the script, that relate with defenders of human rights, that relate with opposition, that are outside of the area of control of
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  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
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  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
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  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
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  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín<br />
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'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
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With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
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We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
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And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
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We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
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  • The chief of Seduya village, centre, sits outside his house. One of the chief's functions is the protocol of meeting visitors and making sure the appropriate hospitality and welcome is given. Hospitality has culture and religious importance, and though the village is poor, and muslim inhabitants are fasting for Ramadan, the chief ensures that visitors eat well and have a place to sleep.<br />
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The small village of Seduya, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
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  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
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  • Two pet parrots sit on a wooden wall outside the cocoa warehouse at UNCRISPROCA.
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  • A street scene in Intibucá outside the city prison, the graffitti on the wall says "Chepos Asesinos" (The Police are Murderers) and "Berta Vive" (Berta Lives). Berta Cáceres campaigned and organised communities in Intibucá and other areas of Honduras to defend indigenous rights and territories before her assassination.
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  • "My name is Joe Ware, I'm the Church and Campaigns journalist at Christian Aid based in London.  Weíre all here to get the world on track to a low-carbon planet, one that will tackle climate change and its effects. Itís not just about bringing down emissions, itís also about dealing with the effects that weíve already created, and helping those communities that are suffering the consequences. After 21 attempts, weíre finally at a big meeting where weíre hopeful we are going to get an actual deal which will put us on that pathway. The most important thing is a political signal to the world that this is the direction we are going in. Itís already happening outside of this conference with investors and businesses and all sorts of exciting developments and weíre here to make sure that the politicians and the governments can actually get it written down on paper and make that signal concrete for the world to see. <br />
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Christian Aid is an anti-poverty charity that looks at the cause of poverty, climate change is a cause that we work on and weíre passionate about seeing it get fixed. Weíre fortunate enough to have some very well qualified policy and advocacy staff working with us, and they engage in the process. We believe in tackling the structural causes of poverty. If we can get a good deal, it will make the lives of poor people better around the world."
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  • A security guard stood ready to shoot as he guarded the Cuscatlan Stadium. Many foreign buses were in the stadium, thought by crowds outside to be carrying illegal foreign voters to the elections
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  • The human rights ombudsman talked to a crowd of protesters outside the Villa Olimpica centre in San Salvador the night before the elections. the centre was being used by around 50 buses with Guatemalan number plates, and the crowd was convinced that the foreigners had been brought into the city by the right-wing ARENA party to vote illegally. Gun shots were heard at the back of the centre and hundreds of people escaped from Villa Olimpica over the back fence.
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  • Honduran migrants resting outside the migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Bertita Cáceres is hugged by friends and family outside the supreme court in Tegucigalpa as sentence is passed on David Castillo for the assassination of Berta Cáceres, her mother.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210705_7...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
    Honduras_migration_Hawkey_20210628_6...jpg
  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
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  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín (right hand side of the picture) with her packing team.<br />
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'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
<br />
With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
<br />
We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
<br />
And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
<br />
We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
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  • An oso perezoso (sloth) carrying a baby sloth in the garden of a Maritza Chavería, San Benito, Jinotega, Nicaragua. This is just outside her kitchen window. She and her husband got a small loan, with it they bought an empty and over-grazed pasture and they turned it into a forest garden with organic coffee, cocoa and honey as the main produce, but deliberately producing a huge variety of fruits and flowers and wildlife. This sloth is one of 12 that live in the garden, they just arrived one day and haven't left, they also have visiting monkeys, tucans, parrots, cardinal birds and many resident iguanas.
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  • A girl stands outside her kitchen in a small village near Koinadugu, Sierra Leone.<br />
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This remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, is an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
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  • Outside school in a small village of Koinadugu district in Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. This is one of several villages in the area supported by World Renew through its partners Christian Extension Service.<br />
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Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • A girl stands outside her house in a small village near Koinadugu, Sierra Leone.<br />
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This remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, is an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Girls stand outside their home in a small village near Koinadugu, Sierra Leone.<br />
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This remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, is an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
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  • A miner leave a tunnel to the outside at SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho
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  • Nuns take photos outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
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  • Outside the Holy Church of the Sepulchre, pilgrims gather before entering
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  • Shadows on a Pyongyang street outside a bookshop.
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  • Portrait of Maria  in southern Malawi. Maria is working as a security guard for a community water scheme.<br />
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In this area World Renew supports a peer-mentoring programmes for girls. <br />
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The region has a problem of girls and young women who work at markets being pressured into transactional sex by their clients. <br />
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The peer-mentoring programme teaches girls how to resist such pressure, and teaches them about how to prevent HIV and pregnancy.<br />
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The groups have become very popular with girls in the area, and many of them continue their education and get jobs outside the the precarious and vulnerable informal sector.
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  • A street scene outside a billiard hall in Bluefields, RAAS, Nicaragua.
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  • Orthodox faithful gathered outside the security barrier at St. Mena Cathedral in Heraklion as Patriarchs held a religious ceremony.
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  • His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa met people waiting outside the Annunciation Church in Kissamos, after celebrating Divine Liturgy. Orthodox Patriarchs are meeting in Crete for the Holy and Great Council.
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  • Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church sat together outside the church of St. Titus as they gathered for the Holy and Great Council.
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  • Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church sat together outside the church of St. Titus as they gathered for the Holy and Great Council.
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  • A street scene in Intibucá outside the city prison, the graffitti on the wall says 'Berta vive en el corazón del pueblo' (Berta lives in the heart of the people) and 'Berta Vive' )Berta Lives). Berta Cáceres campaigned and organised communities in Intibucá and other areas of Honduras to defend indigenous rights and territories before her assassination.
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  • A street scene in Intibucá outside the city prison, the mural painted on the wall is a portrait of Berta Cáceres. Berta Cáceres campaigned and organised communities in Intibucá and other areas of Honduras to defend indigenous rights and territories before her assassination.
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  • A horse tied up outside a rural meeting of farmers organised with Lenca organisation COPINH in La Cuchilla, Santa Bárbara, Honduras
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
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My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
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Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
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My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
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I decided to go last year. <br />
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A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
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They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
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LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Fr Ismael Moreno, known as Melo, is a Jesuit priest, human rights campaigner and the Director of Radio Progreso. He has received repeated and specific death threats recently, and the radio station has suffered attacks, including the sabotage of the transmission tower in Tegucigalpa.<br />
<br />
After leading prayers at an ecumenical vigil outside the US embassy, he spoke about defending human rights in Honduras.<br />
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"The situation for us, human rights defenders, while Juan Orlando Hernandez is in power, is in permanent and growing danger".
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  • A protestor held a banner outside the US Embassy reading: "You want to reduce illegal immigration? Then support democracy in Honduras! Stop legitimizing FRAUD! Fuera JOH"
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  • Protestors against electoral fraud sang the Honduran national anthem outside the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
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  • Nationalist banners were burned outside the US Embassy that gave support to the Nationalist Party despite widespread fraud.
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  • A young Q'eqchi girl laughs outside her school in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Boys fascinated by someone's mobile phone, huddle together outside their school.
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  • The sports pitch outside the CODECH offices in Concepción Huista. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • "My name is Joe Ware, I'm the Church and Campaigns journalist at Christian Aid based in London.  Weíre all here to get the world on track to a low-carbon planet, one that will tackle climate change and its effects. Itís not just about bringing down emissions, itís also about dealing with the effects that weíve already created, and helping those communities that are suffering the consequences. After 21 attempts, weíre finally at a big meeting where weíre hopeful we are going to get an actual deal which will put us on that pathway. The most important thing is a political signal to the world that this is the direction we are going in. Itís already happening outside of this conference with investors and businesses and all sorts of exciting developments and weíre here to make sure that the politicians and the governments can actually get it written down on paper and make that signal concrete for the world to see. <br />
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Christian Aid is an anti-poverty charity that looks at the cause of poverty, climate change is a cause that we work on and weíre passionate about seeing it get fixed. Weíre fortunate enough to have some very well qualified policy and advocacy staff working with us, and they engage in the process. We believe in tackling the structural causes of poverty. If we can get a good deal, it will make the lives of poor people better around the world."
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  • Colourful pillars outside the COP21 climate talks in Paris
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  • Boats left outside Café El Paso, Puerto La Libertad, El Salvador.
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  • The Senegalese flag flies outside the school at Thiokéthian.
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  • Honduran migrants resting outside the migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Bertita Cáceres is hugged by friends and family outside the supreme court in Tegucigalpa as sentence is passed on David Castillo for the assassination of Berta Cáceres, her mother.
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  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
<br />
My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
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Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
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My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
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I decided to go last year. <br />
<br />
A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
<br />
They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • A box with child-sized body bags at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Centre, Conakry, Guinea. <br />
<br />
At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
<br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
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She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
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Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
<br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
<br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • A young girl in a colourful huipil carries a baby outside the ASOBAGRI ofices. ASOBAGRI is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Barillas, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • A senior policeman discussed with an angry crowd outside the Cuscatlán stadium the night before the general elections in 2009. The stadium had a large number of buses with Guatemalan and Honduran number plates, believed to have brought illegal voters into the city as part of a fraud by the ARENA party to remain in power.
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  • As Christmas approaches, Diana Galeano cuddles her baby Estefanie, 8 days old, inside a makeshift shelter that they share with other families on the side of the highway in La Lima.<br />
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Like Diana, thousands are forced to live on the side of the road. The humidity as the floods go down has brought millions of midges and mosquitos, there is no sanitation, food is scarce, and this is how they will be living well into the new year.<br />
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Outside, a neighbour has built a Nativity scene from things he found in the mud.
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  • interview with Kerlan Fenagal continued from previous image caption...<br />
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"In one instance recently, two of our tribal leaders, Dionel Campos and Aurelio Sinzo, were killed in front of all their community in Surigao del Sur, the paramilitaries woke everyone up in the village very early in the morning, going into their houses to get them outside. More than 200 people including children were there, and they executed them in front of everybody. That morning they also killed the director of the agricultural school, one of the Lumad schools there, they slit his throat. This is all linked to coal mining. That same day, while they brought the dead bodies down to the evacuation centre, they did the ground-breaking for coal mining. Everyone from that area evacuated the same day, in fear for their lives.<br />
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67,000 hectares are targeted for coal mining. Ten coal mining companies are applying for concessions to mine. <br />
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The attacks are intensifying. They are closing our Lumad schools, they have already closed 86 of our schools. When we asked the soldiers why, they told us that the orders are coming from Malacañang (the presidential palace).<br />
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If you resist, if you are lucky they can trump up charges against you, or they can just kill you.<br />
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We have only two types of land under Philippine law, private land and public land. There is no provision for ancestral domains, for our collective ownership and land management. This legal inadequacy makes it easy for them to take our land, to sell concessions for logging and mining on our ancestral domains. It is easy for them to force us out legally. They have already given a lot of our land to mining corporations and commodity producers, for palm oil, bananas. They are destroying our beautiful rainforest and mountains, our beautiful people."
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  • Alongside provisional shelters that stretch for miles outside San Pedro Sula, Diana's neighbour put up a Christmas tree and nativity scene on the roadside.<br />
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The Christmas tree is a reminder that the global scientific community and faith-based groups across the world call out together for us all to take urgent action to slow climate change: to stop burning fossil fuels, and to start planting trees, a trillion trees need to be planted to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.<br />
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And the nativity scene is a powerful reminder of Mary and Joseph who found no room at the inn and were forced to shelter and sleep with animals, the least suitable place imaginable for the birth of a baby. No one made room for them. We are all innkeepers today, deciding whether we have room for strangers, and whether we should help people who - like Mary and Joseph - have nowhere to go.
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