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  • Animal market at the Nizwa Souk, Oman, 2011
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  • An indian silver smith estimates the value of a ring at his shop in the Nizwa Souk, Oman, 2011
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  • Animal market at the Nizwa Souk, Oman, 2011
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  • Old part of the Nizwa Souk, Oman 2011
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  • The new generation of wrestlers train on the beach of Ngor in Dakar on April 9, 2015. The wrestlers of Ngor are a team, they train together but never compete against each other in an official tournament. Like Kherou Ngor, tens of thousands of young men in Senegal want to make a career as a wrestler, hoping to one day become rich and famous.
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  • Sixteen-year-old Winnie stands in the entrance of the hut that she and two roommates have rented. Often, the girls are sought out and sexually assaulted by unknown men in the hut, particularly when they are drunk and defenseless. They can't protect themselves because the door has no hinge and no lock.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. A boy sells consumer goods in one of the numerous shops in the Shatila. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), most of the men in the camp work as labourers or run grocery stores, and women work as cleaners. 10 percent of Lebanon's population is comprised of Palestinian refugees, two-thirds of them live on less than $6 a day.
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  • Men playing billiard in a bar in Ethiopia. Photographed for Helvetas Switzerland
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  • Because they are socially stigmatized, sex workers are frequently exposed to robbery and violence. Pamela shoes the spot where she was brutally raped by five men who tortured her with barb wire for several hours. She had been raped several time before.
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  • (2013) Hanna (37) never knew her mother or her father, never went to school and grew up on the streets. She became a sex worker at the age of 16. A few years ago some Chinese men promised her a better life abroad and paid for this document. Father Hermann convinced her not to go.
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  • Trudy, (28) says that her children are her only joy in life. Because most of the men refuse to use condoms, women who sell themselves often get pregnant. Some of the women have up to ten children, often all from different fathers.
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  • April 1, 2015. Women perform traditinal songs at a competition in Djilass, a small village in the disrict of Thiès. The repetitive songs and archaic drums belong to every wrestling match in Senegal. While men hit the drums, the singing is the job of the women.
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  • Young wrestlers practice traditional wrestling during the evening hours at the wrestling school of ex-wrestler Boy Kaire on the beach of Dakar's Corniche on March 31, 2015. On most of Dakar's many beaches, young men are seen training as wrestlers before and during the wrestling season from December to August,
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • November 8, 2017 –Women of the Ndiaye family prepare food for their noumerous family members and guets during the Grand magal in Touba  while the men gather to pray on the morning of the Grand Magal. The Grand Magal is also the most important family reunion in Sehegal, and women are the center of the family in Senegalese society. They are respected and honored as the educators of the next generation of good Muslims and as the glue that holds together the family. Unlike in the Arab world, women are not considered to be husband‘s property and therefore do not have to wear veils.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: Mirvat Al Saadi  had to flee Syria without her husband. She lives alone with her three children. Men have tried to get into her apartment several times at night. That's why she electrifies the door of her apartment at night.
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  • (2013) Amanda (33) tallks about her life at Father Hermann´s Shelter. Her parents passed away, so she grew up with her grandmother who could not afford to feed her and to pay for her schoolfees. Therfore she started to sell herself in clubs. She says that sex workers in Namibia are at very  high risk to get beaten up, thrown out of cars or even get killed by men who refuse to pay them for their services.
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  • Young wrestlers train at the Corniche in Dakar on April 3, 2015. Many young men dream of a career as a wrestler, as Kherou Ngor has already done. Because they don't have much money, they usually train with the simplest of means. Here, the wrestling trainees have to run through the sand and carry each other.
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  • April 11, 2015. Young men prepare themselves for a wrestling fight in Bambilor, a small village close to Dakar. The wrestlers wrap a cloth around their abdomens at which the wrestlers hold each other during the fight.
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  • The ex-Wrestler Boy Kaire lectures young men at his school at the Corniche in Dakar on April 3, 2015.
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  • The women and children from the Senegalese village Soune have assembled to watch the men fighting in a wrestling match on April 20, 2012. The wrestling matches in the country are delivered occasionally at village celebrations to entertain the audience.
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  • In the comparatively cold morning hours, some men play foot-volleyball, called Sepak Takraw, at the shore of Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh. This sport, which finds its origins in Malaysia and Thailand, is also very popular in many Southeast Asian countries.
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  • (2013) Hanna, 37, lives at Damara 6, one of the roughest areas in Katutura. She showes her passport and explaines that a few years ago some Chinese men promised her a better life abroad and paid for this document. Father Hermann convinced her not to go and kept her from making the biggest mistake of her life, she says.
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  • Men release a bull from a pickup for a Bull fight in Barka, Oman 2011
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • Am frühen morgen des Meskel-Sonntags strömen die Pilger zu den elf Felsenkirchen, um zu beten und sich segnen zu lassen.
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