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Vo Viet Hung, 23, talks about his brother Vo Viet Hoang, 13, who is in this picture; 'He is in pain all the time, we do not know how much longer this can go on... But I love him, he is my brother, he knows when I am near him. I can see it sometimes,…

Nquyen Thi Kien, 37, lives outside of the perimeter of the ?à N?ng airport that both the United States and Vietnam agree is a site with extreme dioxin contamination. Nquyen is dieing of blood cancer and she reported her doctors believe her fatal…

First Published in The Times of London on Oct 28, 2009. This essay addresses what can happen to Vietnamese civilians generations after a war has ended. These are portraits of individuals in Vietnam who have been impacted by birth defects the…

A Cossack cadet Artyoma was photographed in Cossack Cadet Corps in Belogrinka, Crimea. About 100 cadets study and train at the cadet corps.

Dut Daniel Aketch, a Lost Boy of Sudan, holds the first documented picture of himself taken at a refugee camp in Kenya. He does not know his own age, but he knows he was young when he fled the massacre of his village of Southern Sudan. He is one of…

Struggling with depression since the death of his sister, writer Ralf Mueller spends most of his life alone in his apartment in Hamburg, Germany.

Princess Victoria Oluseyi. Lagos, Nigeria 2009. Oluseyi is a participant in the Junior Kudra Program of Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND). The Junior Kudra Program is an expansion of KIND's Young Women leadership Program. The name KUDRA is a…

Mrs. Shaneera Smith, 33, is an uninsured breast cancer survivor. Her quest for proper diagnosis and treatment of Triple-negative breast cancer, a subtype of breast cancer characterized by its unique molecular profile, aggressive behavior and lack of…

GOTHENBURG 071202 Christmas time. The family is very important to Mikael. He spends a lot of time with his three children. In the residential area of Vastra Frolunda, Sweden the Christmas decorations is in place, and Mikael shows his youngest son…

GOTHENBURG 080816 Working out got Mikael to regain his self confidence after many though years as a kid. He works out on the trampoline almost every day. -----------------------Mikael Andersson was born without arms and legs. Despite his disability…