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20070519DE_evangelical_01.JPGAssembly of God pastor Dione dos Santos talks with a "soldier" on guard at a drug-selling point in the vast wasteland of the periferal area of Rio de Janeiro. With most state functions absent in Rio's far of neighborhoods, the church pastor and the "ministers" find it easy to make converts of drug trafficker and others with their agressive recruitment campaign. (Australfoto/Douglas Engle)
Uploaded on Jul 31, 2007
2006_01.JPGWith no working elevator, residents descend the stairway of an abandoned building in central Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jan. 18, 2006. Thousands are squatting in the 22 floor abandoned building commonly referred to as the Prestes Maia occupation, after the avenue it is on in central Sao Paulo. The squatters are part of the Brazil's sem teto or 'roofless' movement - an urban coalition that is gathering steam in cities across the country. The movement is the urban equivalent to the better-known MST, Brazil's Movimento dos Sem Terra or Landless Movement which has spearheaded the campaign for land reform since the 1980s. The MST defends Brazil's impoverished rural workers and reclaims unproductive land for the dispossessed. The MSTC reclaims buildings for the homeless and for low income workers, many who work in the informal economy, who just are not able to enter the official housing market.
Uploaded on Mar 24, 2007
2005_28.JPGAyan Mayan, 13 sits on her bed at a hospital run by a Catholic mission in Mapuordit, southern Sudan, Nov. 23, 2005. Mayan who lost her child, is slowly recovering from the operation she had to remove it. Although the peace accord signed in Jan. 2005 ended the war between the Islamic north and non-Muslim south, years of civil war have taken their toll. The presence of any government or infrastructure is minimal, if at all. The missions and other NGOs in the region provide vital basic services for the population, which is slowly growing around the relief and aid centers. While the war is over, the Catholic church sees that the battle with the Islamic Sudanese government for the hearts and minds of the people of south Sudan is just beginning. After a six-year transitionary period, the south Sudanese will vote in a referendum on independence.
Uploaded on Mar 24, 2007
2005_26.JPGA boy looks at a bullet-riddled wall in the no-man's land area between two slums known as "Vietnam" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 15, 2005. Police occupied the two slums after eight young people were kidnapped from one of them, allegedly by drug traffickers from a the other rival slum nearby. The kidnappings are the latest episode in a feud between the Vigario Geral and Parada de Lucas slums which has been going on for more that 20 years. The Vigario Geral slum was also site of an infamous massacre in 1993, in which police killed 21 people. Shootouts marked by indiscriminate shooting between rival drug gangs and the police are common in Rio and innocent bystanders have fallen victim to the deadly gunfire and the homicide rate of Rio rivals that of declared war zones.
Uploaded on Mar 24, 2007
2005_23.JPGA Dinka herder at a cattle camp near Mapuordit in the semi-autonomous south Sudan, Nov. 23, 2005. The Dinka is one of the largest tribes of south Sudan, inhabiting the swamplands of the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin. They are mainly pastoral people, relying on cattle herding at riverside camps in the dry season and growing millet (Anyanjang) in fixed settlements during the rainy season. Among well-known Dinka are supermodel Alek Wek, former NBA player Manute Bol, one of the two tallest players in the league's history and current NBA player Lual Deng. A Jan. 2005 peace accord ended a 21 year civil war in Sudan, in which some 1.5 million were killed. The wat pitted the Muslim-dominated government in Khartoum against the mainly Christian and anamist south. The peace deal includes wealth and power-sharing arrangements, created a national unity government in Khartoum and gives southern Sudan a six-year period of autonomy after which it will hold a referendum on secession.
Uploaded on Mar 24, 2007 |
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