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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Children in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Street children by Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Street in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Building that used to be a brothel in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Street children at the riverfront nof Phnom Penh. The 3 of them with Pov (12) (front in blue) as their leader are looking either for gay customers whom they can offer to follow to their hotel rooms or straight customers for whom they can find girls of any age.
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  • Girl at riverfront of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Rady (18) (on the right) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children, during a psychological support class. The NGO that is run by christian Cambodians, is trying to help the girls by using the Bible to teach them how to live life and go through the problems they face.
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  • Rady arriving at her outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city while her step-mother Jan Cum Saang is closing the gate of the piece of land where they live behind her.
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • Rady with her step-mother Jan Cum Saang, her brother Yort (7) (L) and her younger brother Heir (4) (R) outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • French middle-aged man with young prostitute he just picked up on the riverfront, on a boat-bar that every night cruses Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh.
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  • 16 year old girl crying (middle) after her mother (R) invited me to photograph her in her room that she also uses to receive customers as a prostitute. The room is in a slam behind "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. When she was 13 she was raped by a Khmer man and a bit after that she started taking customers as a prostitute. Virginity is still considered very important for a Cambodian woman, making it very difficult for her to get married to a Khmer man after loosing it. One year ago she also started taking crystal meth, a drug that is comonly used by prostitutes in Phnom Penh because it helps them stay awake the nights they go to bars to pick up foreign customers. The drug also makes her look deranged and over-emotional. .On the left, a neigbor woman that also works part time as a prostitute.
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (R) and Heir (4) (L) on their bed, inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Rady ariving at her home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • boat-bars that every night cruse Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh. Many prostitutes meet clients in those bars
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  • People living in a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • School-kids passing in front of an Anti-Pedophiliac advertisement in the outskirts of Poipek town, near the border with Thailand.
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  • Child trafficking and prostitution in Cambodia.Bar "Walkabout" in Phnom Penh is one of the bars where young and many times underaged prostitutes go to pick up foreign clients. The bar also offers rooms for its customers on the upper floor.
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  • Son Rathany (14) (R) and Rous Mach (15) (L) who are both working as prostitutes, in the room where they sleep and sometimes bring clients, in a slam behind the "building" in Phnom Penh. They both started working as prostitutes about half a year ago. Son after her family broke up and Rous after being tricked to start going to bars by a divorced female friend of hers. They take 1-2 clients a night. Rous goes mainly to "Martini Pub" a bar where foreign men go to pick up prostitutes. Son looks very young so it is more difficult for her to go in the bars but she refused to say how she finds customers.
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  • 12 year old girl that is working as a prostitute at a brothel in "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. (face digitaly blured)
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  • Mother and child at a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • Street in Phnom Penh. The extreme poverty of Cambodia contrusted by expensive cars on its streets that often belong to corrupted government officials.
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  • Many signs on the national road that connects Phnom Penh and Battambang to Sieam Reap and the border with Thailand, campaign against the use of guns
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  • French guy (left) with a young prostitute, siting at the riverfront of Phnom Penh. The riverfront if a place where many Cambodians go for an evening out but also prostitutes look for customers and vice-versa.
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  • Kanha Thy (22) together with her 3 years old son, in the room that she shares with 5 more people in a slam behind the "building". She grew up in the slum and when she was 14, her mother was sick and bleeding (possible because a miscarriage) and a neighbor taught her in to selling her virginity to a foreigner for 150 US$ so that she can buy medicine to help her. From the $150 she had to give him $50 for helping her. Since then she started working as a prostitute, going to bars to pick up foreign customers. To make herself look older she had to wear make-up and high hills and this way she could enter the bars with no problems. She got married when she was 19 but her husband doesn't make much money out of collecting scrub so she still works as a prostitute and continues even now that she is expecting her second child, by hiding her belly under layers of cloths.
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  • Rady's step-mother Jan Cum Saang (37) hiding her crying face when she is asked to tell what she thinks of Rady's story. She is very sorry that their relationship was bad and because of it Rady run away and she is now affraid of her other younger daughter that is vaunerable as she also has to work to help her family. She lives with her family in very poor conditions, in a wooden hut outside Sisophon town.
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • Shanghai Bar: Hostes bar in Phnom Penh.
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (L) and Heir (4) (R) inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Monks offer snacks to the children..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Alsheikh family around the little food they could get during the food distribution. They come from Aleppo in Syria where the father worked as a gynaecologist until his hospital was bombed by the government forces after it was occupied by the Islamic State army. There are more than 10 groups plus the government forces fighting in Aleppo. They worried about their children’s future so they decided to leave their country where IS is forcing children to leaned how to fight. His life was also in danger if IS could find out that he was a doctor there. Already his wife’s brother who is travelling with them (in the back), had been injured by a bullet. The route they followed was: from Aleppo to Azaz by car, then  they walked for 21km to the border with Turkey, after crossing they walked for 10 more km until the first village Kilis, then they went to Urfa by a small bus they rented, then traveled for 36 hours by local bus to Izmir where they met the smugglers who arranged for them to go to Greece. They brought them 70km north of Izmir where they crossed by boat to Mytilene island. That was three days ago and they have been in the camp for 2 days while they are waiting for their registration papers so that they can continue their trip. They thought that they would find better conditions in Greece so they where quite disappointed. Their final destination is Germany. <br />
Refugee camp Kara Tepe near Mytilene city. It hosts Syrian refugees who are waiting for their registration papers that will allow them to stay in Greece for some time till they can move to an other European country.
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  • Alsheikh family around the little food they could get during the food distribution. They come from Aleppo in Syria where the father worked as a gynaecologist until his hospital was bombed by the government forces after it was occupied by the Islamic State army. There are more than 10 groups plus the government forces fighting in Aleppo. They worried about their children’s future so they decided to leave their country where IS is forcing children to leaned how to fight. His life was also in danger if IS could find out that he was a doctor there. Already his wife’s brother who is travelling with them (in the back), had been injured by a bullet. The route they followed was: from Aleppo to Azaz by car, then  they walked for 21km to the border with Turkey, after crossing they walked for 10 more km until the first village Kilis, then they went to Urfa by a small bus they rented, then traveled for 36 hours by local bus to Izmir where they met the smugglers who arranged for them to go to Greece. They brought them 70km north of Izmir where they crossed by boat to Mytilene island. That was three days ago and they have been in the camp for 2 days while they are waiting for their registration papers so that they can continue their trip. They thought that they would find better conditions in Greece so they where quite disappointed. Their final destination is Germany. <br />
Refugee camp Kara Tepe near Mytilene city. It hosts Syrian refugees who are waiting for their registration papers that will allow them to stay in Greece for some time till they can move to an other European country.
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  • Children from a kindergarden and other people from Ebisu area, waiting at a park that is one of the evacuation spots of the area, untill the aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Tokyo around 15:00 on Friday the 11th of March stop. The children are covered with specall protective hoods.
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  • Children from a kindergarden and other people from Ebisu area, waiting at a park that is one of the evacuation spots of the area, untill the aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Tokyo around 15:00 on Friday the 11th of March stop. The children are covered with specall protective hoods.
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  • Children from a kindergarden and other people from Ebisu area, waiting at a park that is one of the evacuation spots of the area, untill the aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Tokyo around 15:00 on Friday the 11th of March stop. The children are covered with specall protective hoods.
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  • Children from a kindergarden and other people from Ebisu area, waiting at a park that is one of the evacuation spots of the area, untill the aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Tokyo around 15:00 on Friday the 11th of March stop. The children are covered with specall protective hoods.
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  • Children from a kindergarden and other people from Ebisu area, waiting at a park that is one of the evacuation spots of the area, untill the aftershocks from the earthquake that hit Tokyo around 15:00 on Friday the 11th of March stop. The children are covered with specall protective hoods.
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  • Mother with her children waiting to be servised at the Athens Town hall.
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  • Tarik Aljadoue (34) and his wife Samar Jamal (27) at the space that NGO Aggalia has organised as a temporary stop for refugees in Kaloni village, as they are on their way to Mytilene city. A local person drove them there the night before. The couple is from Alepo in Syria where Tarik was working as an IT engineer for a French owned oil company until they closed down their business there in 2011. Since 2011 he moved to Kafarhamra north of Alepo, as his house in Alepo was in a dangerous area. He got married to Samar one year ago and they were waiting to see what will happen to their country. 6 months ago internet was cut so it was difficult to learn any news of what was really happening. Local TV was only broadcasting propaganda from different armies. On Friday one week ago, they decided to find a safe country to have their children and leave Syria where they saw no work and no future as they could not see the end of this war. They want to try to reach Germany or any other European country where they can find work. <br />
Their trip started from Alepo to Tartus by bus, then on an other bus to a port from where they boarded a ship for one and a half day to Toshojo port (Tasucu port?) in Turkey near Mersin. From there they took a bus for 13 hours to Izmir but before they arrive they heard that there were police checks in Izmir and as soon as they arrived, they boarded an other bus for 9 hour to Istanbul. There they stayed for two days until the smugglers told them that they could start their trip to Greece. They payed 1250 USD each and after two days, at 8 am, they met the smugglers at a metro station, they boarded a bus with 60 people and no AC and they traveled to a location near Izmir. The trip lasted for 7 hours and it was unbearably hot. When they got off the bus somewhere near the sea, they were told to switch off their mobile phones and walk for one hour until they reached the sea. There there were three dinghy boats with engines and 33 to 40 people would board on each
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  • Suda (18) was born in the Akha village Huei Naam Kun that is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai. She has been living at the premices of the NGO Children of the Golden Triangle for the last 8 years so that she can go to school, and hopes to go to University and become a mathematics or English teacher.
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  • Pataw (47) has been living in the camp for 7 years. He used to live at the Karen State in Myanmar/Burma and  for 3 years he was fighting with the Karen Liberation Arm. He was injured when during an offence towards the Burmese army he fell on a landmine. Then he was helped to escape. He lives inside the building of the Karen Handicap Welfare Association in Mae La camp. He has 3 children from 9 to 20 years old still living in Myanmar. He hopes that one day there will be freedom so that he ca return to his country and his family. .Burmese refugee camp "Mae La" is north of border-town Mae Sot and lies along the Thai-Burmese border on the side of Thailand. Approximately 50,000 people live there. 38,167 was the official number of registered people in November 2009, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), and the rest are unregistered or people who come and go.
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  • Saheb Zade Bashira with one of her their children in front of the tent where she is staying. <br />
They are from Kabul in Afghanistan where her husband had a street stall selling clothes. After an explosion near their home killed her nephew who was a policeman, they got scared and decided to leave the country. They want to go to Switzerland. <br />
Moria refugee camp is a bit further out of Mytilene city and it is divided in two sections. The inner part is well organised with buildings and police guarding it, and the outer part where mainly Afghan refugees live in tents and is purely guarded with chaotic situations, mainly during food distribution, frequently occur.
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  • Esmael (husband) and Saheb Zade (wife) Bashira with their children and Saheb Zade’s brother, in Mytilene city. <br />
They are from Kabul in Afghanistan where the husband had a street stall selling clothes. After an explosion near their home killed her nephew who was a policeman, they got scared and decided to leave the country. They want to go to Switzerland.
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  • Askhari family who just landed in Mytilene island are from Kunduz city in Afghanistan. They are travelling together with their two children, the husband’s brother and the wife’s brother. They left Afghanistan because after the leader of the city died, killing started by the Taliban and there was chaos. They traveled for 4 months via Iran and Turkey before they crossed to Greece. Their final destination is Norway because they think they can live there without much worry. <br />
Refugees arriving on beaches near Molyvos village in Lesvos island. Thousands of them come from Turkey, crossing the sea border on inflatable dinghy boats, on a dangerous trip that has claimed many lives. Local people or NGOs expect them and help them in some places but after their arrival, most of them have to walk to the nearest village where they can hope for a places on busses that can take them to the city of Mytilene where they can register and eventually board on a ferry to Athens. Many decide to walk the distance as the busses aren’t enough to accommodate the large number of people that arrive daily.
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  • Bathers in the mixed "Kodakara no yu" (children of pleasure hot spring) of the Takaragawa onsen (hot spring) in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo. - JAPAN 8 July 2006
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  • Akha girls Pratana (17) (left) and Aranya (17) (right) have both been living at the premises of the NGO "Children of The Golden Triangle" for about 9 years. They both want to become teachers so that they can go back to their villages and teach their people.
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  • SUZUKO NUMATA: Pictured in hospital, where she is being treated for osteoporosis.  Numata was 20 and engaged to be married when the bomb fell and shattered her left leg.  Three days later it began to fester and was amputated below the knee, without anesthetic. She later learned that her fiancé had been killed.  She never married and spent her life teaching and unable to talk about what happened until she retired twenty years ago.  "We used to chant during the war: Be united in one mind like a fireball, 100 million people. Then when the bomb fell the trucks came around and ignored women and children, and just helped the healthy men.  That's when I first understood what war was."
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  • The Yakobi family came from Ghazni city in Afghanistan. The father is a tailor and had a shop selling fabrics but they decided to leave because life there was dangerous. Explosions were happening almost every day and they were also worried about their children’s safety and whether they could go to school. They have been travelling for a month. They left Afghanistan by crossing to Iran where they were hit by the police at the border. They crossed to Greece via Mytilene island and they want to go to Germany. <br />
Refugees arrive at Eidomeni border by bus and some times on foot. There they can cross to the republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • The Hassan family came from Kabul city in Afghanistan. They left the country because they had no work and no security. Their children are 2,5 and 5 years old and they have been travelling for 4 months. They crossed to Greece via Samos island. They now are waiting to board the bus to Eidomeni border. <br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Fade is from Nabk city in Syria. He is travelling together with his sister, his wife and their two children. He used to work as an engineer for mobile phone antennas and they were wealthy with 3 houses and two cars. He saw a lot of injustice in his city with people who complained being arrested and 1/3 of the city flattened during 4 years of war. Together with many volunteers, he used to cook and offer food to about 15000 people in his city. Eventually he decided to leave Syria with his family. He brought with him as much money as he could but most of the money in his account was blocked by the Syrian government. They traveled for about 3,5 years via Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey till one and a half month ago when they arrived in Mytilene island. They occupy a small house at the camp which he organised almost as a permanent residence by creating a watering system and by planting vegetables and fruit. He believes that it is important to create a place where the “brother” who will move in after he and his family leaves can also live comfortably. He is one of the very few people who are considering to stay in Greece because he likes the people. He believes that a person with skills can survive anywhere. He will try to do this in Crete island where he has friends. He hopes to return to Syria after the war ends. <br />
Refugees at the camp called PIKPA outside Mytilene city, that is one of the best organised. It is run but a group of volunteers under the name “The Village of Everyone Together”. People there are both from Syria and Afghanistan.
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  • Esmael (husband) and Saheb Zade (wife) Bashira with their children, inside the car that picked them up after they were walking many hours trying to reach Mytilene city. <br />
They are from Kabul in Afghanistan where the husband had a street stall selling clothes. After an explosion near their home killed her nephew who was a policeman, they got scared and decided to leave the country. They want to go to Switzerland.
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  • Monks offer snacks to the children..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Bathers in the mixed "Kodakara no yu" (children of pleasure hot spring) of the Takaragawa onsen (hot spring) in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo. - JAPAN 8 July 2006
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  • Akha child wearing a Santa Claus hat at the premises of the NGO "Children of the Golden Triangle", in Chiang Rai province
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  • SUZUKO NUMATA: Pictured in hospital, where she is being treated for osteoporosis.  Numata was 20 and engaged to be married when the bomb fell and shattered her left leg.  Three days later it began to fester and was amputated below the knee, without anesthetic. She later learned that her fiancé had been killed.  She never married and spent her life teaching and unable to talk about what happened until she retired twenty years ago.  "We used to chant during the war: Be united in one mind like a fireball, 100 million people. Then when the bomb fell the trucks came around and ignored women and children, and just helped the healthy men.  That's when I first understood what war was."
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively. Children of Hiroshima go to the Peace Memorial Park to play and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.Children in front of the Paper Cranes, folded by Sadako Sasaki. She died in 1955 at the age of 12 by lefkemia. When she was diagnosed with the disease she thought that by following the Japanese tradition of folding a 1000 paper cranes to be cured, she could win over her illness. 8 months later when she died, she had already folded 1300 paper cranes, on any kind of paper she could find.
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  • The Zedan family came from Edlib in Syria. The father used to work as an electrician and the mother as a french language teacher. They travel with their children that are 5, 6 and 8 years old. They have been travelling for a month and they crossed to Greece from Turkey on a dinghy that landed at Samos island. <br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Children's peace monument
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  • Akha childred having their lunch at the premises of the NGO "Children of the Golden Triangle", in Chiang Rai province
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  • The library of the North Korean University in Tokyo. North Koran children's magazines
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  • Children playing Japanese drums at the beginning of the launching and naming ceremony of  the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.
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  • Mustapha Ahmed Jalal (21) with his wife (21) and their three children are from Talll Al Abyad city in Syria. They left from there 4 years ago and tried to make a life in Turkey where it was difficult to find jobs. They eventually decided to come to Europe and stay anywhere where they can be accepted. <br />
Refugees arrive at Eidomeni border by bus and some times on foot. There they can cross to the republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. School-children in front of pictures of people burned by the A-bomb in Hiroshima.
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  • People moving out of a meetig during festivities for a coming of age ceremony in Yasukuni shrine, Tokyo.
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