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Boy resting after boxing practice.

The Hisar Shai refugee camp between Jalalabad and the Pakistani border houses people who were driven out of northern Afghanistan because they supported the Taliban. Those refugees who live in tents face a hard and cold winter.

With wounds to her neck and face, a woman covers her eyes as she rests. Some of the women were raped and beaten by the intruders before anyone came to their aid.

Under the Saddam Hussein regime, some women who committed crimes against the government were considered crazy and sent to the psychiatric hospital, where they lingered for years.

Without water, the women went for days without cleaning themselves. Some of them who were too weak to walk, scooted along the dirty floor.

A woman sits idle on the floor after all of the chairs and tables were stolen. A television and a radio, which provided the only distraction for the patients, were also taken.

A broken water main, possible caused by a passing U.S. tank, cut off all running water to the hospital. The women gather around a pot of water, desperate for something to drink.

Looters stole everything they could carry from the psychiatric hospital, leaving some without a bed to sleep on. A woman rests on the floor during the day, her body covered with flies.

Women sit in the central patio, while others wander aimlessly. Help was slow in arriving at the locked facility after the initial days of the Iraq war, when staff members fled in fear.

At the Al Rashid Psychiatric Hospital, the plight of female patients went from horrible to horrifying as the war took its toll in early April 2003. On April 9th, when U.S. forces arrived in Baghdad, chaos erupted as looters rampaged the city. No one…