Leonardo Runyo (35), wearing ppe to protect himself from the novel coronavirus, stands in the yard of a home in the Paraisopolis favela. He is with a team of volunteers are going from home-to-home tes...

Leonardo Runyo (35), wearing ppe to protect himself from the novel coronavirus, stands in the yard of a home in the Paraisopolis favela. He is with a team of volunteers are going from home-to-home tes...

Jennifer (10) plays with her two year old brother Moises while their mother, Vanessa Silva Santos Souza, is tested for COVID-19 antibodies in their apartment in the Paraisopolis favela. A team of volu...

A woman and a girl wait in line for food aid at a distribution facility in the Paraisopolis favela that was set up to offer relief during the coronavirus crisis.

A girl stands in the doorway of her home in her pyjamas in the Bonteheuwel neighbourhood. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a densely populated shanty towns (or townships) mostly inhabited by poor black a...

Police officers frisk a group of young men in Bonteheuwel. Any young men standing in groups after dark are consistently stopped, thrown to the ground or off a wall and promptly body-searched. Most d...

A police officer prepares his gun while looking for suspects during a raid on a house suspected for being a drug den. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a densely populated shanty towns (or townships) most...

A young man is taken into custody by police officers under suspicion of possession of drugs. Any young men standing in groups after dark are consistently stopped, thrown to the ground or off a wall...

A girls stands on a street corner at night in Bonteheuwel. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a densely populated shanty towns (or townships) mostly inhabited by poor black and 'coloureds'.

A young woman who has been caught with a small dose of crystal methamphetamines is dragged to a waiting police car despite trying to resist. She was sprayed with pepper spray and taken away. Bontehe...

A policeman searches for something he saw a young suspect throw away as police approached. Any young men standing in groups after dark are consistently stopped, thrown to the ground or off a wall...

Drugs found by police in a well known drug den. Mandrax, a highly addictive sedative and hypnotic medication that is smoked by users.

A street scene in the neighbourhood of Bonteheuwel, a densely populated shanty town (township) in Cape Town mainly inhabited by blacks and coloureds.

A police dog bites the arm of a young man who is being frisked by police officers. Any young men standing in groups after dark are consistently stopped, thrown to the ground or off a wall and prom...

A policeman approaches a house where suspected criminals are thought to be. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a densely populated shanty towns (or townships) mostly inhabited by poor black and 'coloureds...

A painting of a leopard next to electricity sockets and a light in a house in Dunoon.

A shack in the Dunoon township.

A street scene in the Dunoon township with women doing laundry and looking after children.

A woman weaves a girl's hair in the Dunoon township.

An aerial view of corrugated iron shacks in the Dunoon township.

A group of children are woken from their sleep by police sirens, as a group of young men are body-searched just outside their house in the Bonteheuwel neighbourhood. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a dens...

Any young men standing in groups after dark are consistently stopped, thrown to the ground or off a wall and promptly body-searched. Most do exactly as the police command, learning by experience what...

A pairs of training shoes dangling from a wire at an intersection, according to the police, this is a sign used by the gangs to show customers that drugs can be purchased at this spot. Bonteheuwel n...

A mother with her two daughters are woken up by the police as they force themselves into her home with a warrant to search it. Nothing was found. Bonteheuwel neighborhood is a densely populated shant...

The newly formed police unit the Neighbourhood Safety Team (NST) search in a property after they received information from The State Police (SAPS) that drugs and weapons were being kept at the address...

A densely packed area of slum housing in a Cape Town township. According to the World Bank figures, South Africa is by far the most unequal country in the world measured by the so-called Gini coeffici...

A member from the Americans gang, high on drugs, and ordered to expose his gang-tattoos for police officers during a raid in his apartment in the Manenberg neighbourhood. The gang doesn't have any fir...

A young woman who has been caught in possession of a small amount of crystal meth during a police raid on a drug house is restrained by officers. She shouts at the officers as they drag her out to a w...

Police search suspects during a raid on a house known to be used by people using drugs. During the operation a policeman noticed that one of the young men threw something into the grass. However, afte...

In a raid on a house well-known as a place used by drug users, police find, among other drugs, Mandrax, a popular synthetic, and highly addictive hypnotic medicine that is crushed and smoked. The man...

As the police search for a young man from her house, a young girl comes out to watch the turmoil in the Bonteheuwel neighbourhood. Not far away from the high-rise buildings of steel and glass, the l...

Two boys going home after attending school in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original home...

Alver Camilo Angulo, 9, eating lunch at his aunty's house as there is no food in his own home. He often manages to get three meals a day, but not everyday so he must often go to bed hungry, he explain...

Young men gambling in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original homes due to the conflict wi...

From left: Gina Natalia Garces, 12, Lesli Mayesi Viueros, 12, Ani Michel Duran, 11, and Eblin Yazury Valenua, 14, in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent...

A child looks out of a house window in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original homes due t...

Alver Camilo Angulo, 9, eating lunch at his aunty's house as there is no food in his own home. He often manages to get three meals a day, but not everyday so he must often go to bed hungry, he explain...

A man sits in the window of a house in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original homes due t...

A young man walking through Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original homes due to the confl...

Children fishing for crabs beneath a boardwalk that runs between the houses, which are built on stilts, in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the re...

People and housing in Puente Nayero, a slum area home to more than 1200 families. An estimated 95 percent of the residents have been forcibly displaced from their original homes due to the conflict wi...

The Kroo Bay shanty town, an area of extremely poor hygiene where only a few houses have running water and toilets.

Floating houses on the Amazon RIver in the town of Iquitos.

Garbage floating on the surface of a river in the Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has more edge to it than its Italia...

The Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has more edge to it than its Italian sister. The place is a stinking slum on stil...

Men on boats transporting bananas in the Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has more edge to it than its Italian sister....

A man paddles a wooden boat through the Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has more edge to it than its Italian sister....

The Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has more edge to it than its Italian sister. The place is a stinking slum on stil...

A pig hangs upside down outside a hut as a man sits on his wooden boat in the Iquitos neighbourhood of Belen Bajo. They call it the Venice of the Rainforest, but the Iquitos quarter Belen Bajo has mor...

A slum south of Bogota where millions live in ramshackle huts, some without water or a proper sewer system. Armed groups consider the area as strategically important as it links Bogota to southern Col...

Nine year old Luiz Guillermo Rendon lives in Soacha slum just outside Bogota. His family fled their home in Tolima, west of Bogota, when a local paramilitary group killed his father, and threatened hi...

Squashed into just 12 square meters, 16 displaced people, adults and children, sleep, eat and live together. They are from the indigenous Embera-Katio people who for generations have lived in unspoi...

Leidy Vivianna Rendon only has two photographs left of her husband who was killed by a paramilitary group. One of the photographs shows the young couple and their first born son on a picnic together w...

The house of Leidy Vivianna Rendon. She and her three young boys had to flee their home in Tolima, west of Bogota, when a local paramilitary group killed their father, and threatened his mother with h...

The house of Leidy Vivianna Rendon. She and her three young boys had to flee their home in Tolima, west of Bogota, when a local paramilitary group killed her husband. The family now live as internally...

Tens of newly arrived internally displaced people (IDPs) enroll their children at a school in the slum area of Soacha, south of Bogota.This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant and when p...

A portrait of two girls in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota. Most of the people who live here are internally displaced (IDPs).This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant an...

A man looks out from his shack with a view over the slum area of Soacha, south of Bogota. Most of the people who live here are IDPs.This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant and when publ...

A displaced (IDP) man and his son beg for money from passing traffic in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota.This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant and when published it s...

17 year old Gilmar Johani cares for his four month old son Johan Danilo just outside their square slum shack. Gilmar has lived in this slum now for six years ever since his family was forced to flee f...

Local police officers search customers of a nightclub for drugs and weapons. Violence and crime rates are high in the slums south of Bogota. Most of the residents in this area are internally displaced...

A child looks through a glass window in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota. Most of the people who live here are internally displaced (IDPs).This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded...

17 year old Gilmar Johani cares for his four month old son Johan Danilo just outside their square slum shack. Gilmar has lived in this slum now for six years ever since his family was forced to flee f...

A man carries some tubing up a hill in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota. Most of the people living here are internally displaced (IDPs).This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by...

Local residents pump water from a truck into their home as they do not have any running water in the slum neighbourhood of La Isla, south of Bogota. Most of the people living here are internally displ...

A displaced (IDP) man and his son beg for money from passing traffic in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota.This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant and when published it s...

19 year old Yemini Esperanza Narbaes stands at the door to a bar in one of Bogota's poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods called Altos de la Florida. The area lies by a hillside on a dirt-road and...

A displaced (IDP) man and his son beg for money from passing traffic in the slum neighbourhood of Soacha, south of Bogota.This story by Mads Nissen was partly funded by a grant and when published it s...

Leidy Vivianna Rendon holds a neighbour's child. She and her three young boys had to flee their home in Tolima, west of Bogota, when a local paramilitary group killed her husband. The family now live...

Squashed into just 12 square meters, 16 displaced people, adults and children, sleep, eat and live together. They are from the indigenous Embera-Katio people who for generations have lived in unspoi...

A local woman has just escaped from her boyfriend who violated her. Violence and crime rates are high in the slums south of Bogota. Most of the residents in this area are internally displaced, who iro...

19 year old Yemini Esperanza Narbaes (right) stands at the door to a bar with a friend in one of Bogota's poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods called Altos de la Florida. The area lies by a hillsi...

People buying items from street vendors on a rubbish strewn street.

A boy and a shopkeeper wait for customers in an impoverished district of Kathmandu.

Two young girls stand arm-in-arm on a street in one of Kathmandu's slum neighbourhoods.

A small girl carrying a half naked young boy along a street in one of Kathmandu's slum neighbourhoods.

Two young girls play on a street in one of Kathmandu's slum neighbourhoods.

Two young girls play on a street in one of Kathmandu's slum neighbourhoods.

A homeless boy covered in dirt at the city's toxic rubbish dump. The dump provides food and shelter for many homeless people.

Anna and Renan sit with each other in their home where they live with their five children, situated beneath a bridge in the neighbourhood of Quiapo. They collect rubbish such as used plastic bottles a...

On a rooftop a young couple have a quiet moment of privacy in the Vitas slum near the Smokey Mountains rubbish dump. Many people here live from collecting garbage such as used plastic bottles and scra...

On a rooftop, young people practice dancing near the Smokey Mountains rubbish dump in the Vitas slum. Many people here live from collecting garbage such as used plastic bottles and scrap metal for rec...

4 year old Camzamed Dulay lives with her parents in the shanty town of Vitas. Many people here live from collecting garbage such as used plastic bottles and scrap metal for recycling. The neighbourhoo...

People wash in the Santo Nino shanty town. People in this area live in small homemade huts, many made entirely from rubbish and leftover building materials that they found on the nearby garbage dump....

Northern Cemetery. The lack of space forces people to live anywhere they can, even on the graveyards and inside the tombs.

Northern Cemetery. The lack of space forces people to live anywhere they can, even on the graveyards and inside the tombs.

Rubbish floating in a river. Poor families rely on the river for drinking water.

The national flag flies in a slum area in the neighbourhood of Quiapo. A boy sits in one of the high constructs in the slum.

A homeless boy covered in dirt at the city's toxic rubbish dump. The dump provides food and shelter for many homeless people.

Two boys sleep in the city's toxic rubbish dump. The dump provides food and shelter for many homeless people.