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Forgotten human rights crises 2021

We talk to the photographers who captured some of 2021's forgotten human rights crises

  • Laure, a midwife at Ndu health facility in Congo-Brazzaville, holds one of Ester’s baby twins delivered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    ‘They lost almost everything’: photographing the terror and joy of refugees in DRC

    Alexis Huguet’s image of this twin girl, born as her mother fled into Congo, captures the fragility of life in the Central African Republic
  • Women at a protest to mark International Women's Day in Mexico City.

    ‘It was civil war’: photographing Mexico’s women’s rights protests

    Mahé Elipe captures the visceral anger as International Women’s Day protests turned into a violent clash with police
  • Gaza Residents Clean Up As Ceasefire Holds<br>BEIT HANOUN, GAZA - MAY 24: A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home on May 24, 2021 in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Gaza residents continue clean up operations as they return to damaged and destroyed homes as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding into a fourth day. The ceasefire brings to an end 11 days of fighting which left dead more than 250 Palestinians - many of them women and children - and 13 Israelis. The conflict began on May 10 after rising tensions in East Jerusalem and clashes at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. (Photo by Fatima Shbair/Getty Images)

    ‘She stood in silence, remembering’: photographing Gaza under airstrikes

    Fatima Shbair’s photo of a girl in her ruined home is an indelible image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s resurgence in May
  • A gang member, wearing a balaclava and holding a gun, poses for a photo in the Portail Leogane neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

    ‘It could explode at any time’: photographing Haiti’s gang warfare

    In a country dominated by gangs, photographer Rodrigo Abd’s images show both armed gangsters and the residents they terrorise
  • Displaced Yemeni children attend school in a derelict building, in the war-torn western province of Hodeidah.

    ‘No roof, no seats, no desks’: photographing Yemen’s conflict-hit schools

    Years of fighting mean children as old as 10 have never been to school. Khaled Ziad’s images document a generation whose entire future is at risk
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