Dax Simbol

Guys got game. Jay Custodio, 21 years old, pulls up a jumper, during a friendly basketball game for the differently abled at the Tarlac City basketball court during the celebration of the 34th National Disabilty Prevention Rehabilitation Week (July 17-23). Custodio said he was born with the disability but doesn't take it as a burden, he repairs appliances for a living.

Hardy Mendrofa

Novelis (13), practising uses a makeshift wooden poles 1.5 meters in the village of Bawomataluo, South Nias, Indonesia. Stone jumping is a tradition in Nias that was made mandatory for all male who have reached adulthood. This is a way to prove their manhood and ability to go war against another village.

Victims of Industrial Pollution

Victims of industrial pollution in a village on the outskirts of Vishakapatnam, India. Many villages in the surroundings are affected medically with various disease caused due to mercury and lead which are polluted by the NTPC's  Power Plant. 

PM Salahog

Surrounded by the Special Force of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF),MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim delivers his "State of the Bangsamoro Struggle Address”  during the Bangsamoro Leaders Peace Assembly at Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, Philippines on 07 July 2012. (PMSalahog)

Bijoyeta Das

Between here and nowhere: On May 14, the New Delhi police raided a garage that was employing children Often children who run away from homes end up working illegally in small factories and industries. A local non-governmental organization tipped the police about the garage.@ Bijoyeta Das. New Delhi, May 14, 2012

Jake Salvador

Two kids contrast their smile against their filthy surroundings that stinks at the Payatas Landfill in Quezon City, where nearby communities earned their living through collecting and selling segregated plastic, paper and metal garbage. The landfill used to be the main spot for garbage disposal in Metro Manila that eventually turned into an electric producing facility in 2008, it converts garbage to biogas into electricity, that now helps to power the Metro.

Ekis, The photograph is first published in Philippine Collegian, Circa 2003

Living Stone by Khaled Hasan

Photo Caption: 
Kalam Ali, 26, ties a flimsy, tan cotton towel called Gamchha to cover his face. He has been part of the stone-crushing industry in Jaflong for 4 years. He digs into a pile of crushed stones with a spade. A thick plume of dust rises. “I know I am breathing dust, dirt and many of us suffer from serious diseases, but we have no options,” he said. Skin and respiratory problems are common among the barefooted workers who have little protection from dust and dirt. Jaflong, Bangladesh.

Ping Peralta

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. A paramedic personnel checks on a victim of an intensity five earthquake that hits a building in Legazpi City, Philippines this 27 of July 2012. This is the scenario during an earthquake and fire drill conducted by the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol Region to test the response capabilities of emergency personnel during disasters. (Ping B. Peralta)

HIGH ANGLE RESCUE. To be able to evacuate a fire victim immediately, a high angle rescue is executed by a fire man during fire drill this July 27, 2012 at a building in Bicol University, Legazpi City, Philippines. (Ping B. Peralta)

 

DISASTER RESPONSE. Albay province in the Philippines boasts highly trained rescue volunteers that can help during disaster operations. Because of this, the province received many recognitions and awards in terms of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management from national and international awards bodies. (Ping B. Peralta)

Richard Jacob Dy

July 25| Lola Pilar, a victim of sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II, tells an Al-Jazeera reporter how 'comfort women' are still being denied justice after all these years. Many of the war crime victims like Lola Pilar chose to be activists, campaigning against wars of aggression, foreign military presence, and all forms of violence against women.

Rad Deverala

FEARLESS: Tezutsu hanabi (手筒花火) performers launch their hand-held fireworks cylinders. Historically this ritual is offered before going to war, for a rich harvest or good health and fortune. These days, the act is done to prove one's bravery. (July 20, 2012 | Yoshida Shrine - Toyohashi City, Japan | Rad Deverala)

RIZZA © MENDIOLA

 

Caption Option 1: In threat of being converted into probable business zones, the last avian mangrove sanctuary in Metro Manila found along the Parañaque Coastal area is home to more than eighty species of migratory birds. ###

Caption Option 2: Local dried fish industry along the Parañaque Coastal area is an indication that informal settlers still benefit from the waters of Manila Bay despite threats on environment. ###

Caption Option 3: Informal residents within the Parañaque Coastal area oppose the reclamation and conversion of Freedom Island - the last remaining sanctuary in Metro Manila. ###

Teya Sabado

Fr Jett Villarin SJ, President of Ateneo de Manila University welcomed Sr Amelia G David, ICM to the Heritage Room while all were waiting for the program proper of the Academic Convocation 2012. Ms David received the "Bukas Palad Award" for playing a key part on People Power Revolution in the 80s. In the background, in the middle is Mr Jose De Jesus, also an awardee who received Lux-in-Domino award and on the extreme right is Fr. Jose Magadia SJ, Provincial, Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus. (July 19, 2012 /Teya Sabado)

Mark Cristino

Jayson Williams of the USA All-Stars (right) awes the crowd as he shows some fancy dribbling against  Bal David of the Philippine All-Stars at the SM MOA Arena, July 18, 2012. The visitors composed mostly of former NBA players defeated the Philippine All-Stars 112-93

On Bended Knees © A.M. Ahad

Men from all over Dhaka gather as one in the National Mosque to give praise and thanks to Allah during Ramadan. (Photo by A.M. Ahad)

Junn Abriza

Furious but determined. Anakin Raphael Abriza  of  Brgy. Santa Fe listen to chief referee Jessica Macalino's order  in  the Final match against  Rafael Malonzo of Brgy. Luzviminda  in the finals of 2012 City of Dasmarinas Inter-Barangay Taekwondo Competition last July 15, 2012. Malonzo won the match 13-13,  9-14, Abriza settled for silver. (JUNN ABRIZA)

            

Nabin Baral

Ganga Dash, a Sadhu Baba, coils his two and half meters long hair in his room at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.The hair is dead locked. He never use soap or shampoo, instead he uses ashes as cleaner. It took him four decades to make such a long hair. Kathmandu, Nepal. 20 July, 2012. Photo by Nabin Baral

Soham Gupta

Nineteen year old Anwara Bibi and her sons mourn the death of Emadul Molla, who passed away after consuming illicit liquor in Sangrampur, India. Left at the mercy of her brokenhearted in-laws, Anwara Bibi wonders how she will raise the children after this tragedy which claimed 170 lives since 14th December 2011. 

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