A miner pushes a rail cart filled with ore up a slope, at the Pailaviri Mine in the city of Potosí, capital of Potosí Department in this photograph by Giacomo Pirozzi. Pailaviri is part of the Cerro Rico mines, which has been in operation for more than 470 years. The mine, once the world’s foremost supplier of silver, is now worked… Read more →←
Author: Christine Nesbitt
Are you up to date? From 24 to 30 April, World Immunisation Week 2014 urges everyone to ask this question for themselves and their children. Immunisation protects against the suffering caused by vaccine-preventable diseases and saves 2–3 million lives each year. But staying up-to-date on inoculations is critical to ensure lasting… Read more →←
This week’s Photo of the Week taken by photographer Giovanni Diffidenti shows 12-year-old Esmaeil (left) and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom sharing a laugh near Esmaeil’s family’s two-room dwelling, in the northern city of Irbid, in Jordan. Esmaeil, his parents and his five siblings are refugees from the northern… Read more →←
The conflict in Central African Republic is limiting access of women and children to health and other services. Many children are affected by deteriorating living conditions, like this young girl seen undergoing nutrition screening in this week’s Photo of the Week by photographer Roger Lemoyne. The yellow on the armband indicates that… Read more →←
This week’s Photo of the Week by photographer Kate Holt shows women and children displaced by recent fighting queuing to collect food in the town of Mingkamen in South Sudan where humanitarian assistance is being provided. This photograph was selected to highlight the situation faced by the women and children of South Sudan. UNICEF… Read more →←
