Nasima Begum, an ethnic Rohingya, had lived in
Bangladesh for one year when she, her
husband, their five-year-old son and her
sister’s family were arrested and forced
back to Myanmar. During the journey back
through the jungle to Bangladesh, her
son died. Six months ago, both her sister
and husband disappeared after walking
from the Kutupalong refugee camp to the village
to find work.
Villagers work in the field outside Sapa, Vietnam.
A boat next to Naaf river, the narrow but heavily guarded border over which the persecuted ethnic group Rohingya flees from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Children allegedly suffering genetic disorders due to Agent Orange in southern Vietnam.
A woman lights a cigarette in a kava bar in Kiribati.
A Rohingya woman washes a plate in Kutupalong refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, 2010.
Wedding couples take pictures outside a mall in Hanoi, Vietnam.
A woman still living in a makeshift home, one year after supertyphoon Haiyan hit the Philippines.
Protesters show their support for South Korean President Park Geun-hye, ahead of a verdict in an impeachment hearing against her.
Children play with toy guns in Pasay, a Manila neighborhood that has been harshly affected by President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.”
A man being circled by protesters in connection to Occupy Wall Street, New York, USA.
Nurlaili had to have a leg amputated after being swept away in the Boxing Day tsunami 2004, Aceh, Indonesia.
Protests in connection to Occupy Wall Street in New York, USA.
Lee Min-hok plays with his guard dogs next to a hydrogen tank. Since 2005 he has released tens of thousands of balloons with subversive material to North Korea.
Two fishermen work on a boat outside Bangladesh’s coast.
A man works in a rice field on Java, Indonesia.
A man is getting ready for tattoo removals at the clinic of Dr Ores, the only New York doctor that offers this service for free to former convicts.
A man at work during a bird’s nest harvest in Gomantong cave, Sabah, Malaysia.
A police officer on a boat outside a village in Chittagong Hill Tracts, a restive province in Bangladesh.
Ronald Barsana replants coconuts after his plantation on the Philippine island of Samar was ravaged by typhoon Haiyan.
Men empty a fishing net in Aceh, 10 years after a tsunami ravaged the Indonesian province.
A family grieves the loss of a member that was taken by the sea, outside Bangladesh.
Protesters show their support for South Korean President Park Geun-hye, ahead of a verdict in an impeachment hearing against her.
Young Hawaiians playing by the ocean outside Honolulu, USA.
Nathan Law, former leader of Hong Kong’s street occupation, is now the city’s youngest parliamentarian.
A fish seller inspects his merchandise in Lahore, Pakistan.
Girls playing in the mist outside Sapa, northern Vietnam. The area is notorious for the kidnapping to China of young girls as brides.
Children play in the waves in Aceh, 10 years after a tsunami ravaged the Indonesian province.
The Korean war separated Cho Soon-jeon from her three sisters. In 2015, 65 years later, they were reunited in an official ceremony organized by Pyongyang and Seoul.
Thirteen-year-old Rohingya refugee Shazeda Begum was raped by local Bangladeshis when collecting firewood in the forest next to the refugee camp Kutupalong.
Tam Mei Woon is rolled into her room at a home for the elderly in Hong Kong.
A group of friends play for money at a beach in Aceh, Indonesia. They call themselves punks, and are often harrassed by Sharia police for their way of life.
A girl looks out over the mountains in the restive Bangladeshi province of Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Eric and Roby Mameta at their home in Tacloban, the Philippines, just beneath a freight ship that was pushed ashore a year earlier by typhoon Haiyan.
Miho Watanabe laughs as she opens her store in Fukushima, 3 years after a meltdown in the nearby nuclear plant, following a tsunami, forced her to evacuate.
