A Buddhist monk pulls his hat down to shade him from the midday sun while collecting alms at a busy junction in Taipei's main financial district.

Sarah-Jane McGrath (51) has spent the last 10 months living in her car. Rental prices in the Byron Bay region have risen dramatically in recent years. The Byron Bay community is at war with a propos...

John collects personal possessions that he was forced to store in a garage when made homeless. John had been living in his car in and around Byron Bay for several years until he was offered a room for...

John collects personal possessions that he was forced to store in a garage when made homeless. John had been living in his car in and around Byron Bay for several years until he was offered a room for...

A homeless man takes refuge in a bombed out house on the former front line of the war between Muslim Bosniaks and Croats.

A homeless man takes refuge in a bombed out house on the former front line of the war between Muslim Bosniaks and Croats.

Honza, a homeless man, sleeps on a mattress under an overpass in Prague's Balabenka district. He said that the police have told him that he and his two friends must leave this place at the end of th...

About 50 people have found a shelter at the DEPO 2015 centre, opened by Pilsen City Hall and NGOs as a COVID-19 emergency shelter for the city's homeless people.

A homleless man praying on Palm Sunday in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Believers must be registered, due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, only 20 people are allowed at Ma...

A widow wearing a burkha begging on a street beside a cobbler and sandal vendor.

A man begging at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A homeless boy sleeping on the concourse at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A homeless boy walks along the tracks at at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A homeless boy sitting on a luggage trolly at at Kamalapur Railway Station (officially known as Dhaka railway station).

A newly arrived migrant family from Rondonia State walk along the Trans-Amazonian Highway in rural Apui. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most deforested...

Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) rests in his tent at a camp in Vila Rio Pardo. This camp was set up last year by families who were evacuated from an invaded area within the Bom Futuro National Forest....

A homeless family builds an improvised shack on squated land invaded by landless people on the outskirts of Manaus, next to the city's Industrial Zone.

A man moves his family's furniture in a cart after struggling with the rent for their house after prices skyrocketed, especially for housing and food, as the urban population of Altamira increased fro...

The emergency winter night outreach team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve shelter, giving out food, drink and sleeping bags to homeless men outside Geneva main station.

Water birds surround the old lake steamer 'Geneve', currently used as a place of refuge for disadvantaged people, including the homeless. It is permamently moored by the central Eaux-Vives district.

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, drive to the main railway station while on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people in the town.

Social workers, carrying containers of hot food and drinks, head out on outreach in support of homeless people, leaving an underground winter shelter run by the Ville de Genève in an abri PC (a civil...

A mattress for exclusive use by a homeless man who has scabies ('gale' in French) in a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclea...

A prayer mat amongst other items for use by homeless people at a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

Personal belongings of homeless people stored at a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker). After a certain number of...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, gives out hot drinks to a group of drug users, camped...

A homeless man sleeping in an ornate bus stop beside the Place des Nations, the UN's principal European HQ. The air temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

A homeless man sleeping in an ornate bus stop beside the Place des Nations, the UN's principal European HQ. The air temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

Blankets and mattresses covered in fresh snow in a sheltereed outdoor space of the Centre Henry Dunant pour le Dialogue Humanitaire, a 19th Century villa in the Parc Mon Repos by Lake Geneva.

Blankets and mattresses in a sheltered outdoor space at the Centre Henry Dunant pour le Dialogue Humanitaire, a 19th Century villa in the Parc Mon Repos by Lake Geneva. The space was slept in the nigh...

The emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talk to a rough sleeper at a bus stop by the UN's Palais des Nati...

The emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, looking for rough sleepers in Parc Mon Repos.

Emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, looking for rough sleepers at a site often used by homeless people as...

A social worker at the reception counter in a winter emergency shelter for the homeless run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

A homeless man receiving attention for his injured arm in a winter emergency shelter for the homeless run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

Homeless men in a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

Emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, give a drug user a hot drink at the railway station.

A sign in English and French that reads: No Mask = No Food, at the food counter in a winter emergency shelter for the homeless run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an und...

Dormitary beds at a winter emergency shelter for the homeless run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker), the central beds are left unoccupied du...

A homeless man with a bad leg sits on the floor in a winter emergency shelter run by the Ville de Geneve in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground bunker).

Emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, head into Geneva's main railway station.

A homeless man holding food, drink and a sleeping bag he has just received from social workers on outreach from the Ville de Geneve shelter, outside the city's main railway station.

A homeless woman with her belongings, seeking a place to pass the night, walks along the Rue du Rhone, one of Geneva's principal luxury shopping streets. The temperature is approx -4C and snow remains...

Line of people sleeping on the street, in central Geneva, in front of a restaurant under renovation. The temperature is approx -4C and snow remains from the day before.

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, gives out hot drinks to a group of drug users, camped...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, making hot drinks for a group of drug users, camped ou...

A homeless man sitting, with his belongings, in front of a hotel near Geneva's main railway station on a cold winter night.

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talks to a homeless woman. A team goes out every night...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talks to a potentially homeless man at Geneva's main r...

'My loneliness is killing me', graffiti on the wall at a winter emergency shelter for the homeless run by the Ville de Genève in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

A homeless man makes a mobile phone call as he sits in a hallway at a winter emergency shelter, run by the Ville de Geneve, in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, an underground nuclear bunker).

A homeless man sleeping in a concrete corridor of a car park in the Old Town.

People pass a homeless man sleeping on a bench beside a statue of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross movement, on the edge of the city's hisoric Old Town.

A homeless man sleeping on a bench at the edge of Geneva's historic Old Town, in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

A homeless man sleeping in a concrete corridor of a car park in the Old Town.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

A camper van, which has been parked in the same space near the Arve River for months, occupied by a couple and a dog.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

Homeless people sleeping in the Parc des Bastions in the city centre, on a cold winter night.

A row of people sleeping rough on the wooden terrace of a play area, decorated by a grafitti artist.

A homeless man standing in morning sunshine beneath a tree decorated with lights, part of Geneva Lux, a light festival.

A homeless man sleeping in the doorway to an art gallery in Geneva's historic Old Town.

A homeless man sleeping surrounded by his belongings, including some Swiss flag shopping bags, in the lee of a hut in the Parc des Eaux-Vivres near the lake.

A homeless man sleeping surrounded by his belongings, including some Swiss flag shopping bags, in the lee of a hut in the Parc des Eaux-Vivres near the lake.

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, prepares hot drinks for rough sleepers. A team goes ou...

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, talking to homeless people living in the basement entra...

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people, approaches a homeless person sleeping in a building ent...

A member of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people approaches a homeless woman sleeping in the hallway of...

Members of an emergency winter night team, social workers from the Ville de Geneve, on a late night outreach tour in support of homeless people in the town.

A social worker with a container full of hot meals prepares to go out on outreach in support of homeless people, leaving an underground winter shelter run by the Ville de Genève in an abri PC (a civi...

A social worker prepares to make a night search, in support of homeless people, leaving an underground winter shelter run by the Ville de Genève in an abri PC (a civil defence shelter, a nuclear bunk...

A volunteer medical student measures the temperature of a newly arrived man seeking shelter from the falling temperatures at the DEPO 2015 centre, opened by Pilsen City Hall with NGO as an emergency s...

Jakub has been sleeping in a tent but as temperatures dropped he found shelter at the DEPO 2015 centre, opened by Pilsen City Hall and local NGOs as an emergency shelter for the city's homeless.

A Roma family camping in a car park near the port of Igoumenitsa.

A man eating bread and soup at the food distribution point of the City of Athens Homeless Foundation. The foundation provides 1200 meals to destitute and homeless Greeks and foreign nationals on a dai...

People eating soup at the food distribution point of the City of Athens Homeless Foundation. The foundation provides 1200 meals to destitute and homeless Greeks and foreign nationals on a daily basis.

Takis (62), a former employee at a Carrefour supermarket, eating soup at the food distribution point of the City of Athens Homeless Foundation. The foundation provides 1200 meals to destitute and home...

A homeless injecting drug user sleeps surrounded by his possessions on the pavement near Omonia Square.

A man walks past a women begging at the roadside.

Dr Olayintan, registrar in the pathmethology unit in the department of internal medicine at the Onabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital. ''When chloroquine was banned, a lot of people stopped u...

The closed Berliner Biersalon restaurant on the Kurfuerstendamm.

Homeless people's tents erected on the pavement beneath Hungerford Bridge.

Members of the public attending a popular event organised by 'Hidden Taipei', an NGO that works with homeless people. Mr Teng (67, white shirt, centre), the speaker at the event who was himself former...

An elderly volunteer (left), who is also homeless, hands out a free meal to a homeless person at an NGO run food distribution centre in the Wanhua District.

Lee Su-Hui (63) asleep in her spot in Bangka Park.

Homeless woman, Lee Su-Hui (63), in Bangka Park where a community of homeless people gather to spend the night.

Kuo Ming-Hong (56) beds down for the night in his homemade cardboard shelter in Bangka Park.

Kuo Ming-Hong (56) retrieves his bedding from where it is stored during the day and returns with it to Bangka Park and his regular spot where he spends the night.

Homeless 73-year old Jimmy Bai in front of the pagoda, where he sleeps, in 228 Peace Park.

Homeless 73-year old Jimmy Bai in front of the pagoda in which he sleeps, in 228 Peace Park.