2000 The mother of a Mexican immigrant family makes piñatas to support
herself and her children. The family numbers among the millions of
'uncounted' Americans, people who for one reason or another have been
missed by the national census and so don't exist in population records.
(Lara Jo Regan)
2001 The body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared
for burial at Jalozai refugee camp. The child's family, originally from
North Afghanistan, had sought refuge in Pakistan from political
instability and the consequences of drought. The family gave the
photographer permission to attend as they washed and wrapped his body in
a white funeral shroud, according to Muslim tradition. In the
overcrowded Jalozai camp, 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan endured
squalid conditions. (Erik Refner)
2002 A boy holds his dead father's trousers as he squats beside the spot
where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers
digging graves for victims of an earthquake in Armenia. (Eric Grigorian)
2003 An Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for
prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne
Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to
orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A soldier later severed
the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods
were placed over detainees' heads because they were quicker to apply
than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient
prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to
the man or the boy. (Jean-Marc Bouju)
2004 A woman mourns a relative killed in the tsunami. On December 26, a
9.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a
series of deadly waves that traveled across the Indian Ocean, wreaking
havoc in nine Asian countries, and causing fatalities as far away as
Somalia and Tanzania. (Arko Datta)
2005 The fingers of malnourished Alassa Galisou (1) are pressed against
the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding center.
One of the worst droughts in recent times, together with a particularly
heavy plague of locusts that had destroyed the previous year's harvest,
left millions of people severely short of food. (Finbarr O'Reilly)
2006 Young Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut. (Spencer Platt)
2007 A soldier of Second Platoon, Battle Company of the Second Battalion
of the US 503rd Infantry Regiment sinks onto an embankment in the
Restrepo bunker at the end of the day. (Tim Hetherington)
2008 Detective Robert Kole of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office enters
a home, following mortgage foreclosure and eviction. He needs to check
that the owners have vacated the premises, and that no weapons have been
left lying around. (Anthony Suau)
2009 Women shout their dissent from a Tehran rooftop on 24 June, following Iran's disputed presidential election. (Pietro Masturzo)
2010 Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in
Afghanistan, fled back to her family home from her husband's house,
complaining of violent treatment. The Taliban arrived one night,
demanding Bibi be handed over to face justice. After a Taliban commander
pronounced his verdict, Bibi's brother-in-law held her down and her
husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Bibi was
abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers and the U.S. military. (Jodi
Bieber)
2011 A veiled woman holds a wounded relative "inside a mosque used as a
field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali
Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen. (Samuel Aranda)