“That is, in the UN’s terms, a crisis … But because it’s been a similarly awful picture for such a long time, the crisis warning bell no longer produces the fire brigade”, Paul Smith-Lomas , Oxfam GB’s east Africa director.
Somalia presents the single largest humanitarian challenge in the world. “Over 3.6 million people, or half [...]

In Cambodia today, there is an increasing number of emotionally disturbed persons. Traditionally the emotionally disturbed in Cambodia have suffered from the trauma caused by the historical tragedy of the  Khmers Rouges, who killed one third of the population and virtually enslaved the rest. But now, according to  Psychologists in Phnom Penh, we have to [...]

In Lebanon, a small but densely populated country, there are 12 official camps with about 230,000 refugees. Compared with their counterparts in neighboring Syria and Jordan, Palestinians in Lebanon has the highest percentage of refugees who are living in abject poverty and who are registered with UNRWA’s “special hardship” program.
Shatila camp, located in Beirut’s “belt [...]

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, experienced a 7.0 cataclysmic earthquake on January 12, 2010. The disaster rocked the nations capital and shook the small country to its core killing more than 230,000 people and displacing several million.

My pictures document the eruption of violence and looting when the hungry, [...]

On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion (the first Prime Minister in Israel) wrote in his diary: “We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.”  Today, 62 years after the Nakba (The 1948 Palestinian exodus) and despite the on-going terror and ethnic cleansing, the [...]

If we talk of Cambodia it’s hard not to mention the 40 years of war, the genocide of Khmers Rouges, the next civil war, the mines, even today collecting life and future of dozens of innocents every year and the trauma among population. Nevertheless, today, it sounds like a new promising era is coming. Indeed, [...]