Young children of the Aetas minority group who live in the Mount Pinatubo area, Philippines.
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Young students look on as their teacher uses a chalkboard to explain the lesson in India.
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Young Filipinos with painted slogans on their faces protest the increasing number of child victims of human rights violations across the country during International Women’s Day near Malacañang Palace, the official presidential residence, in Manila City, Philippines.
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A child waits outside of the Awebwa Profam Clinic in Luwero, Uganda.
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Barbed wire surrounds a military installation along the coast of Dakar, Senegal.
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Peer educators trained by Pan American Social Marketing Organization (PASMO) speak with students about Zika prevention at an educational fair in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Children play at the Dandora dump site in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A child in the slum of Barisal, Bangladesh.
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A group of children in a village north of Blantrye, Malawi, after watching a village play about the benefits of family planning and birth spacing. © 2007 Virginia Lamprecht, Courtesy of Photoshare 

A girl sustains an injury from an explosion while collecting garbage at Anandabazar dump yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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A baby lies in a temporary shelter made from incomplete clay bricks at a brick factory in West Bengal, India.
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A close-up of children inside one of the tent camps in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, where thousands have been displaced following massive floods that began in July 2010. Officers of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) visited camp sites in Balochistan’s Jaffarabad and Naseerabad districts to distribute rations and monitor conditions.
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Children blow bubbles in Lalbagh, Bangalore, India.
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The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room in the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. Its ceiling decorations call for peacefulness.
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The Palace of Nations, headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Children play in the water after school in Cooch Behar, India.
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Rehab Sudan
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A group of children stand hand in hand on a beach in the Philippines.
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