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Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. Early morning in the men's ward of the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital. Above the ward hangs a silent, unwatched television.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. The majority of patients at the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital are mentally disabled, not mentally ill. Sixty percent suffer from conditions that do not require institutionalization.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. Early morning in the men’s ward of the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital, where pools of urine and feces collect on the floor. One hundred and ten men are held in a ward, which has only one attendant.

Summary Few human beings are subject to as much misunderstanding, cruelty, and neglect as the world’s mentally disabled. Those who have been classified mentally ill or mentally retarded are often abandoned or hidden away in psychiatric…

Man sleeping in the early morning in Sweepers Colony in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Boys with pigeons, Ramabai Colony, Bombay, India.

These girls are free to practice their dancing skills for an upcoming wedding in the Freed Haris Camp in Sindh, Pakistan. They are lucky. Their parents were freed from forced or bonded labour and now they live in a camp that has been established for…

Jassi is 12 years old and a child labourer caught in debt bondage. She belongs to the Meghwar caste of the Dalit minority in Pakistan. Her father has borrowed money from the carpet factory owner. She earns a little over 11 euros working 40 days to…

In a dumping ground in Chennai, India, a woman sorts garbage which she later sells.

In a dumping ground in Chennai, India, a woman sorts garbage which she later sells.