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  • Man in his home on lower Ninth and arguably ground zero of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction on 27th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Pre-Katrina, the Lower Ninth once registered the citys highest rate of African-American homeownership. Today, its pre-storm population of 18,000 has been reduced to 1,800.
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  • House for sale on lower Ninth and arguably ground zero of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction on 27th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Pre-Katrina, the Lower Ninth once registered the citys highest rate of African-American homeownership. Today, its pre-storm population of 18,000 has been reduced to 1,800.
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  • Special needs chair dumped on the street in the Lower Ninth ward arguably ground zero of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction on 27th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Pre-Katrina, the Lower Ninth once registered the citys highest rate of African-American homeownership. Today, its pre-storm population of 18,000 has been reduced to 1,800.
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  • Flood Street, the portentously-named residential artery of the Lower Ninth and arguably ground zero of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction on 11th March 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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  • Large sections of trunk from a felled mature oak tree are seen in a compound used by contractors working on the HS2 high-speed rail project on 26th June 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Activists from HS2 Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion UK, some of whom living in the tree, had sought to prevent its destruction for several months as part of an ongoing protest against the environmental impact of the high-speed rail link and the cost of the £100bn+ project.
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  • Old China comes crashing down in Shanghai, China. Migrant workers working on one of the last remaining old buildings in the heart of Pudong, Shanghais financial district bringing on the destruction of old Shanghai around the city.
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  • Old China comes crashing down in Shanghai, China. A Daewoo digger knocks down one of the last remaining old buildings in the heart of Pudong, Shanghais financial district. The Welcome sign and Chinese lanterns in marked contrast to the ever present destruction of old Shanghai around the city.
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  • Detonation and destruction of two M85 cluster bomb units in an olive grove by the Danish NGO Danish Church Aid. <br />
The Danish Church Aid train local men and women to clear the huge number of cluster sub-munition left on the ground after the Israeli invasion and bombings in 2006.<br />
South Lebanon.
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  • Old China comes crashing down. A Daewoo digger knocks down one of the last remaining old buildings in the heart of Pudong, Shanghai's financial district. The 'Welcome' sign and Chinese lanterns in marked contrast to the ever present destruction of old Shanghai around the city.
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  • Old China comes crashing down. A Daewoo digger knocks down one of the last remaining old buildings in the heart of Pudong, Shanghai's financial district. The 'Welcome' sign and Chinese lanterns in marked contrast to the ever present destruction of old Shanghai around the city.
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  • Banners and signs at Poors Piece Conservation Project are pictured on 23 September 2020 in Steeple Claydon, United Kingdom. Poors Piece Conservation Project was established by anti-HS2 activists with the full support of the landowner Clive Higgins to assist him in trying to conserve a strip of land on his farm containing a remnant of ancient woodland known as Poors Piece and to work alongside the local communities of Steeple Claydon and Calvert to try to protect their local environments from destruction for the HS2 high-speed rail link by means of communication and protest.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • The City from the Hill leading into Petion-Ville. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Marie Ange St Laurent, (wearing white)  and her family, at the funeral of  Ronald St Laurent. "Ronald was thirty-one years old when he died. His home fell down on top on him during the earthquake We were all inside but Ronald did not have time to get out.  We must thank God for the opportunity at least, to bury him properly. I feel sorry for the thousands of families who do not have this chance, many cannot find their loved ones. It will be hard for them to move on, it's double the problem.  At least we can visit and put flowers on the grave.  After the quake, there were bodies everywhere many were burnt where they lay or carted off in huge trucks to mass graves."
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  • A sign in front of a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies at the main cemetery in Port Au Prince. The sign reads: "The hole is full. We have no more room for bodies".
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • Alex is a co-director of 'Haitians helping Haitians' a charity that gives Haitians the means to help themselves, to improve their quality of life. (http://www.hhelpingh.org) Alex Juste was lying on his bed when the earthquake struck: "There was a big shuddering noise, I felt the bed shaking" he says. The walls started opening. I could see right into my neighbours' apartment. I had to see what had happened so I started running. I lost it totally. I was screaming, 'This is the end of the world!'  There were people under concrete,  saying, 'sir, help me,!' But I couldn't do anything." Alex's experience is typical. No Haitian has been left untouched.
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  • Ricardo Simeone, centre, from Ferret, Port Au Prince queues outside Muncheez restaurant to get a hot meal. Ricardo  was trying to get out of the house as the earthquake hit but was not quick enough. The house fell on him, he lost the tip of his fingers but he hasn't lost anybody. He is homeless, however and camping in Saint Pierre, and very pleased to be getting a daily meal at Muncheez. He queues every day for three or four hours. Gilbert Bailey, owner of Muncheez, who has been running the soup kitchen since the day after the earthquake was one of the few Haitians not to be directly affected and wants to give back.  He feeds one thousand Haitians every day.  He says, People can contribute directly themselves , search face book under "Muncheez Food Drive Haiti".
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  • Mourners at the main cemetery, Port Au Prince. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Chaumone Auguste  mourns the loss of her mother, Mereille Jeudy at the main cemetery in Port Au Prince. Mereille was sixty-four when she died.
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  • A Haitian carries a heavy coffin the mile or so to the central hospital morgue. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Livis, leaning against a tree at his neighbour Jocelyn's home near Cham de Mars,  Port au Prince. He is helping Jocelyn to rescue his belongings. Livis was not affected directly, he did not lose any family himself,  but his experiences were similar to those of many Haitians living in central Port Au Prince.  He is a Winnie the Pooh fan and reads it to his five children. He says, "If you're excited what is the point? You have no choice but to be calm. Captured in my mind are the scenes immediately after the earthquake: the collapsed buildings, the dead bodies and worst of all the cries for help from those under the debris. The cries that would go unanswered until eventually they stopped. They cried but we couldn't help"
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • Alex is a co-director of 'Haitians helping Haitians' a charity that gives Haitians the means to help themselves, to improve their quality of life. (http://www.hhelpingh.org) Alex Juste was lying on his bed when the earthquake struck: "There was a big shuddering noise, I felt the bed shaking" he says. The walls started opening. I could see right into my neighbours' apartment. I had to see what had happened so I started running. I lost it totally. I was screaming, 'This is the end of the world!'  There were people under concrete,  saying, 'sir, help me,!' But I couldn't do anything." Alex's experience is typical. No Haitian has been left untouched.
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  • A crushed car in down-town Port Au Prince, steel wreckage from this school is  a typical part of the visual language in Port Au Prince now . On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Daphene Louis, an accountant and her boyfriend Steve Babtiste  who works in  customer care at Digicel at the  Catrine -Flon Camp, Puit-Blain St, Delmar 75, Port Au Prince. "It was twenty-four hours after the quake before I saw my boyfriend. There were no communication networks and I had no way of knowing if he was dead or alive. When I saw him, I was so relieved I just jumped on him! Now we live in this camp under sheets held up with timber. It is very hard to get shelter from the sun,and when the rains come  there will be  no protection at all.  We need proper tents but even one month on we have been unable to get help. We have no privacy here, it's always noisy. We don't even have chance for a cuddle. It would be great to get a proper mattress, but we don't even have rice so that's not high up in our priorities."
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  • Nardne Revolucje, the front line between Muslim East Mostar, and Croat West Mostar. It wasdestroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Nardne Revolucje, the front line between Muslim East Mostar, and Croat West Mostar. It wasdestroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • The burned out remains of Ceucescu palace in central Bucharest after the Romanian revolution succeeded in ousting from power the hated and feared dictator.
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  • Boys playing basketball in the ruins on the front line between Muslim East Mostar and Croat West Mostar. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Boys playing basketball in the ruins on the front line between Muslim East Mostar and Croat West Mostar. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Girl sunbathing in the ruins. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Girl sunbathing in the ruins. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Girl sunbathing in the ruins. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Nardne Revolucje, the front line between Muslim East Mostar, and Croat West Mostar. It wasdestroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Nardne Revolucje, the front line between Muslim East Mostar, and Croat West Mostar. It wasdestroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Boys playing basketball in the ruins on the front line between Muslim East Mostar and Croat West Mostar. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • In the immediate aftermath of the flight into French exile of the Haitian president "Baby Doc" Duvalier, residents in the city of Port-au-Prince go on city wide rampage and looting. The army attempt to intervene with little success such was the hate for the regime. Haiti.
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  • Boys playing basketball in the ruins on the front line between Muslim East Mostar and Croat West Mostar. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Boys playing basketball in the ruins on the front line between Muslim East Mostar and Croat West Mostar. It was destroyed by systemic bombardment from Croat guns during the Croat Muslim War, when the Croats endeavored to " cleanse" the town of non Croats. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Trees at Calvert Jubilee nature reserve cleared by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd are pictured on 6 October 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd seized possession of the eastern side of the nature reserve, which is maintained by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 22nd September in order to carry out clearance works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • An area of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve cleared of trees and vegetation by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd is pictured on 6 October 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd seized possession of the eastern side of the nature reserve, which is maintained by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 22nd September in order to carry out clearance works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • A footpath leading towards an area of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve cleared of trees and vegetation by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd is pictured on 6 October 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd seized possession of the eastern side of the nature reserve, which is maintained by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 22nd September in order to carry out clearance works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • An area of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve cleared of trees and vegetation by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd is pictured on 6 October 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd seized possession of the eastern side of the nature reserve, which is maintained by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 22nd September in order to carry out clearance works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • An area of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve cleared of trees and vegetation by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd is pictured on 6 October 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd seized possession of the eastern side of the nature reserve, which is maintained by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 22nd September in order to carry out clearance works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, attend a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • An anti-HS2 sign is displayed outside a private residence on 30th July 2020 in Butler’s Cross, United Kingdom. There is widespread opposition to the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link project in the Chilterns, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB.
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  • A property on the Sweets Way housing estate boarded up and vandalised by its legal owners so as to prevent reoccupation following eviction of its previous residents seen on 23rd September 2015 in London, United Kingdom. A group of housing activists calling for better social housing provision in London had occupied some of the properties on the 142-home estate in Whetstone, in some cases refurbishing properties intentionally destroyed by the legal owners, in order to try to prevent the eviction of the last resident on the estate and the planned demolition and redevelopment of the entire estate by Barnet Council and Annington Property Ltd.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • The aftermath of a black London taxi crashed into bike lock-up bars in Westminster, on 19th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • The aftermath of a black London taxi crashed into bike lock-up bars in Westminster, on 19th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • The aftermath of a black London taxi crashed into bike lock-up bars in Westminster, on 19th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole near Londons Trafalgar Square at the height of the Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990, in Westminster, London, England. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatchers local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then Londons West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martins Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • France. Refugees. Calais. So-called Jungle camp .  A charred bible amongst the  mess from the fire the night before (Saturday  21st November 2015 )
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  • France , Calais, camp for refugees known as 'The Jungle'. November 22nd 2015. Heavy rain has washed out many tents.
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  • A house damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in Obo-ob village, Bantayan Island, The Philippines.
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  • A typhoon damaged fishing boat, Talisay; Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. The storm had a devastating impact on the fishing and seaweed industry and caused extensive environmental damage which will have a long term impact on ecosystems and the communities who rely on them for food and employment. Three-quarters of the island’s population of about 136,000 depend on fishing as their main source of income. Thousands lost their boats and equipment in the storm. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island including establishing boat repair stations in Bantayan.
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  • Coconut tree devastation on Bantayan Island, The Philippines. On November 6 2013 Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines and was one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall. The storm had a devastating impact on the fishing and seaweed industry. It also caused extensive environmental damage shifting coral beds, tearing down coconut trees and ripping mangrove forests apart all of which will have a long term impact on ecosystems and the communities who rely on them for food and employment. Oxfam is working to support the immediate and long-term needs of affected communities on Bantayan Island.
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  • The remains of the recently relocated Mouchi ethnic minority village of Ban Mouchee Kao, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The villagers have returned to remove any useful materials such as wood for construction on their new homes by the road.  Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary cultivation and farmers are being exhorted to produce for markets rather than for family consumption. Forests are being logged, rivers are being dammed, large tracts of land are being given over to largely foreign investors, and mining is on the rise.  Many villages have been forcibly displaced or moved or have voluntarily relocated in search of better conditions. Proponents argue these movements and consolidations increase the access of rural populations to roads, health and education services. Others might argue that it is to keep an eye on their activities and to foster or impel their incorporation into the emerging market economy.
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  • Brighton seafront at sunset with the collapsed pier in the backgound
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  • The massive IRA bomb in Bishopsgate Street in the heart of the City of London destroyed a substantial number of businesses and disrupted a major part of London's financial hub. In the days after the attack on 24th April 1993, we see the pictorial evacuation of smiling faces in a portrait of Pret a Manger staff, the sandwich and lunch chain (from the French 'Ready to Eat'). The image was hung above the premises and construction workers wearing hard hats transport the picture, like hundreds of other nearby businesses whose workers carried away company property, for temporary safe storage. This store was also badly damaged and had to be transferred to another location. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. It is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • A young boy wearing his school uniform looks traumatised standing next to a burned-out shell of a saloon car that was set alight by vandals beneath the infamous Divis flats of the Catholic Lower Falls Road, West Belfast. He wears a red jumper which contrasts the blue graffiti paint on the wall behind him and the charred ground at his feet. He is alone, a young boy experiencing childhood through the traumas of a violent world Divis Tower was a flashpoint area during the height of the Troubles. 9 year-old Patrick Rooney a child of a similar age to this lad, was the first child killed in the Troubles, was killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969,
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  • Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London two on-lookers stop to crane their necks upwards to view the damage to the tall HSBC building. With both their hands up to shield the sun from their faces, the men stand aghast at the amount of devastation to their working landscape. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. repair costs reached approx £350 million.
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  • Hundreds of Haitians pray at The Church of God, Rue de Centre 3, during the Sunday service ( 07/02/10) The church was damaged during the earthquake with  many  of the choir singers entombed. Sylvie Selde remembers "The entire group of singers practising were killed. We are still recovering the bodies now, only nine so far. When we recover them we take them to the mass grave or dig a hole and put them in. This is a message from  God, a  judgement,  do the right thing. Stop being wicked".  Many believe that in Port Au Prince one Haitian Alex K Juste is more positive "That day, there was no rich, no poor, no colour, no prejudice, no racism. We were equal, they knew that God existed and their hands were up in the air praising the Lord. We held hands, we cared for each other, we supported the sick.  What a beautiful thing to see us Haitians reunited, together as one".
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • A Mourner at the main cemetery, Port Au Prince stands next to a pile of human remains. At the time of the earthquake, bodies were piling up in the streets and  Haitians were so desperate to deal with the cadavers that they would bring them to the cemetery and burn them where ever they could find space.
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  • A Mourner at the main cemetery, Port Au Prince stands next to a pile of human remains. At the time of the earthquake, bodies were piling up in the streets and  Haitians were so desperate to deal with the cadavers that they would bring them to the cemetery and burn them where ever they could find space.
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  • Mourners at the main cemetery, Port Au Prince. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Claudette, thirty-three has five kids. She is  photographed with her father, Crispin, sixty-six in their neighbourhood as it is now. She feels lucky to have escaped. "I was buying some drinking water with my son, Gito and was on the way back  when the ground started rumbling. I cried out, `wow an earthquake!` At that point I looked up to see a two- storey building falling down on me. Large blocks of masonry trapped my arm and fell on my son . My son got free and  went for help. Five men returned and tried to lift the masonry with a large stick but they couldn't do it, they left me. I was petrified, the house next door caught alight and I knew for sure I was going to die" Then I felt someone pulling my arm although no one was there. From that moment I struggled to free myself, I pulled so fiercely that I left my finger behind  It wasn't until two hours later that I realized."
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  • Claudette, thirty-three has five kids. She is  photographed with her father, Crispin, sixty-six in their neighbourhood as it is now. She feels lucky to have escaped. "I was buying some drinking water with my son, Gito and was on the way back  when the ground started rumbling. I cried out, `wow an earthquake!` At that point I looked up to see a two- storey building falling down on me. Large blocks of masonry trapped my arm and fell on my son . My son got free and  went for help. Five men returned and tried to lift the masonry with a large stick but they couldn't do it, they left me. I was petrified, the house next door caught alight and I knew for sure I was going to die" Then I felt someone pulling my arm although no one was there. From that moment I struggled to free myself, I pulled so fiercely that I left my finger behind  It wasn't until two hours later that I realized."
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  • Sharline  Dagou, 24, was a secretary at a restaurant in Petion-Ville, she poses with her mother and brother outside her house. "I was in my bedroom with my family when the quake struck. "The first shock was smaller like a preview of the next one. The door was blocked, but we pushed and got out but my younger brother was caught. When we came out we saw our houses destroyed. Now we have nothing. I even lost my shoes and  have been barefoot for the last three weeks.  Most of the families who lost people have left, they cannot bare to stay. We pray to cope with our sadness. A Dominican missionary came to give us courage, he told us we have to accept because we love God. "I often cry, but I still smile as well. We have to, we have to hope for the future. Where there is life there is hope."
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  • Nadine Pleato, opposite a collapsed building in down-town Port Au Prince . She is living in a garage at Latimer 54, near Paloma. She says: "I have just purchased this bag so I can pack a few things and leave Port Au Prince for the provinces. My house was completely destroyed and I lost all my clothes in the quake. All I have left is four pieces of clothing: a skirt and what I am wearing. I have to live and bathe in the street..I didn't know if my mother was alive for six days until she arrived from the provinces with supplies. I was so relieved but I still haven't seen my boyfriend since the morning of the quake. We were with each other a year. He must be dead but I will never know for sure. It's hard to carry on.  How can we be normal now?"
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  • Jocelyn Pierre, at the remains of his home, behind the US Consulate,  Port Au Prince. Jocelyn is retuning to rebuild his business and house.  He has four grown up children who all live in America but he wants to return to Haiti. He is a teacher, he is very proud of his son who is a surgeon in the Navy. "I love Haiti more than myself. America is not my country.  We will overcome this. When you have faith, determination and sacrifice, you can do anything and we will bring you a brand new Haiti one day..Most of the problems are not to do with nature: the trees are still standing , the roads are OK but a brand new nine-storey hospital collapsed; why?"
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  • Pictured are remains of a training centre for nurses next to Central Hospital. The building collapsed with an estimated 80 people still inside. Government buildings were particularly hard hit in the earthquake for example 87 percent of schools in Port Au Prince  are destroyed. In the foreground the remains of a person still lie. A month after the quake most remains but not all have been cleared from the streets. Inside the buildings very few bodies have been cleared such is the enormity of the task.
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  • Geraldine Richards thirty-four, aid queue, Petion-Ville, with her sisters remaining child, Giodania. Geraldine is a jewellery seller. She has five kids, all boys  (twins and triplets), as did her sister prior to the earth quake but only one of her sister's children survived (Giodania, pictured) when their house collapsed in the earthquake. "My sister  is so depressed she hasn't eaten. She lost her husband and  all but one of her five  kids. She hasn't even recovered the bodies. It's necessary to bury our loved ones but the government cleared them away in huge trucks and dumped them in mass graves or they were burnt.  She  has no will to live, she is suicidal. I am looking after her and her kid, one of the bags of food I have is for my sister. I am lucky to get this, if you miss the card distribution you are lucky to get food and getting back with the food is difficult sometimes. The men take it or someone will cut the bag and catch the rice in a bucket, before you realise. All the same, we are thankful for the aid."
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  • Chanette Inocent Jeremie in an aid queue at  Petion-Ville. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Sharline Dagou, 24, was a secretary at a restaurant in Petion-Ville, she poses with her mother and brother outside her house. "I was in my bedroom with my family when the quake struck. "The first shock was smaller like a preview of the next one. The door was blocked, but we pushed and got out but my younger brother was caught. When we came out we saw our houses destroyed. Now we have nothing. I even lost my shoes and  have been barefoot for the last three weeks.  Most of the families who lost people have left, they cannot bare to stay. We pray to cope with our sadness. A Dominican missionary came to give us courage, he told us we have to accept because we love God. "I often cry, but I still smile as well. We have to, we have to hope for the future. Where there is life there is hope."
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  • Sharline Dagou, 24, was a secretary at a restaurant in Petion-Ville, she poses with her mother and brother outside her house. "I was in my bedroom with my family when the quake struck. "The first shock was smaller like a preview of the next one. The door was blocked, but we pushed and got out but my younger brother was caught. When we came out we saw our houses destroyed. Now we have nothing. I even lost my shoes and  have been barefoot for the last three weeks.  Most of the families who lost people have left, they cannot bare to stay. We pray to cope with our sadness. A Dominican missionary came to give us courage, he told us we have to accept because we love God. "I often cry, but I still smile as well. We have to, we have to hope for the future. Where there is life there is hope."
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  • Mario Vieu is the owner, director and a broadcaster at Signal FM, a small station in Petion- Ville, Port au Prince. As soon as the earthquake struck he made his way to the Radio station; by accident or design, some one had left Hotel California radio station playing on a loop. His staff were afraid to go in but he managed to persuade some journalists to come and chat about what had happened and has been broadcasting ever since. "We had a minimum of 5000 people outside  all the time for four days (not the same people). We just gave them a microphone  and then broadcasted  messages all day. "We were like a phone with two people but broadcasting to the whole city. People would call in , 'My wife and kids are under the debris  - would you send help?'; afterwards they would come back and say, thank you."
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. .The impact of the disaster on a country already impoverished after years of political crisis, and previous natural disasters is huge. According to the DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee)'230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. The media response by the news agencies has been intense, and much imagery especially on the internet has been shocking, almost voyeuristic,  these pictures allow us to connect with the Haitians, with their  humanity and as equals.
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  • Marie Yolene, Bois De Fer, age 44,  and daughter Marie Geralda Auguste, 17, in a camp opposite the Palace, Cham de Mars.  Marie's son Emanuel was trapped for 12 days before he was eventually rescued ( the New York Times did a feature on him). The daughter recounts: "I was sitting down at the house when it started to rock then blocks and wood started falling, Romario broke his leg, Mum grabbed us all and we got out all except my oldest brother Emanual.  He was trapped. We weren't sure if he was alive or dead but we kept looking for him. Then my mother and Emanuel heard each other. He called out, 'Mamma I'm alive,' Mum told everybody she could find that he  was alive,  journalists, aid workers rescue workers, After 11 days rescuers ( an Israeli SAR) pulled him out, my mother collapsed from joy."
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  • Ismael, thirty-five out side the ruins of The Tax Office. Most important government buildings have been destroyed including the Palace, Law courts, 87 percent of schools, even prisons leaving  the country with no means to govern. ."I am a steel worker by trade but right now I'm here recovering the bodies from the tax office. We use plastic gloves and put them in plastic body bags. It's not a nice job, the smell almost kills me. I have to drink to get through but I know I am helping the families. The parents are waiting for me each time I pull a body out so they can identify it. They buy me my rum.  I have pulled out one body today but twenty-five in total."
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  • Janne Orelis, 26  is a Sales Woman with two children, Central Hospital Port Au Prince. "The house collapsed on top of me, crushing my right arm" she says. "I was rescued by my family. If it was not for my husband I would be dead,  but it was two days before I saw a doctor.  The pain was terrible, by the time I got to see a doctor there was no choice but to amputate. I can't stop thinking about my arm. But now I am worried sick about my six month old baby. My family have him with them in the provinces, but he has only ever had breast milk. He could be very hungry. As soon as I am able, I will go to him."
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Nadine Pleato, opposite a collapsed building in down-town Port Au Prince . She is living in a garage at Latimer 54, near Paloma. She says: "I have just purchased this bag so I can pack a few things and leave Port Au Prince for the provinces. My house was completely destroyed and I lost all my clothes in the quake. All I have left is four pieces of clothing: a skirt and what I am wearing. I have to live and bathe in the street..I didn't know if my mother was alive for six days until she arrived from the provinces with supplies. I was so relieved but I still haven't seen my boyfriend since the morning of the quake. We were with each other a year. He must be dead but I will never know for sure. It's hard to carry on.  How can we be normal now?"
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  • Nadine Pleato, opposite a collapsed building in down-town Port Au Prince . She is living in a garage at Latimer 54, near Paloma. She says: "I have just purchased this bag so I can pack a few things and leave Port Au Prince for the provinces. My house was completely destroyed and I lost all my clothes in the quake. All I have left is four pieces of clothing: a skirt and what I am wearing. I have to live and bathe in the street..I didn't know if my mother was alive for six days until she arrived from the provinces with supplies. I was so relieved but I still haven't seen my boyfriend since the morning of the quake. We were with each other a year. He must be dead but I will never know for sure. It's hard to carry on.  How can we be normal now?"
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, attend a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Madonna in front of house on 11th March 2020 in Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisianna, United States. Pre-Katrina, the Lower Ninth once registered the citys highest rate of African-American homeownership. Today, its pre-storm population of 18,000 has been reduced to 1,800.
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  • A property on the Sweets Way housing estate vandalised by its legal owners so as to prevent reoccupation following eviction of its previous residents seen on 23rd September 2015 in London, United Kingdom. A group of housing activists calling for better social housing provision in London had occupied some of the properties on the 142-home estate in Whetstone, in some cases refurbishing properties intentionally destroyed by the legal owners, in order to try to prevent the eviction of the last resident on the estate and the planned demolition and redevelopment of the entire estate by Barnet Council and Annington Property Ltd.
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  • Medieval fort ruins in a fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • The pathway, normally hidden, through a wood revealed after a large fire on 4th August 2019 near the village of Monze, France. The woodland are very suseptable to dangerous fires as the leaves of the mountain oak are rich in oils.
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  • A detail of a crashed Ford car whose grill and bonnet has been crushed after a head-on collision, on 3rd February 2020, in London, England. According to the Dept. of Transport, 13,420 Britons were killed or seriously injured by road accidents  in 2018/19.
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