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JUBA - 24 hours after South Sudan declared independence from the north, spectators watch the country’s team play in its first international soccer match, at Juba football stadium, July 10th, 2011. From Welcome to South Sudan, by Sarah Elliott

JUBA - 24 hours after South Sudan declared independence from the north, spectators watch the country’s team play in its first international soccer match, at Juba football stadium, July 10th, 2011.

From Welcome to South Sudan, by Sarah Elliott

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Teenage Kayayo girls sleep at a market in Accra, Ghana. The Kayayei (‘market girls’) move from northern Ghana, where sustenance is hard to come by, to Accra in search of work. They often face difficult labor and dangers such as robbery and kidnapping. For many Kayayei, the journey south signals an affirmation of adulthood, and a transition between tradition and modernity. From Kayayo Girls of Ghana, by Veronique de Viguerie

Teenage Kayayo girls sleep at a market in Accra, Ghana. The Kayayei (‘market girls’) move from northern Ghana, where sustenance is hard to come by, to Accra in search of work. They often face difficult labor and dangers such as robbery and kidnapping. For many Kayayei, the journey south signals an affirmation of adulthood, and a transition between tradition and modernity.

From Kayayo Girls of Ghana, by Veronique de Viguerie

NIGER - Tuareg Nomad women dance at a baptism in the desert. This group has been in the region for the rainy season, taking advantage of easy water and good grasses for the animals. MNJ rebels are fighting the Niger government because they feel that the traditional grazing lands and water rights of the Tuareg are threatened by the Uranium industry. KENYA:Pokot tribesman attacked a Samburu village in a dispute over cattle grazing rights at a time of drought in the region. 50 cattle were shot and over 300 died later from lack of grazing access

Today is World Water Day

The world’s most abundant resource is also one of its most problematic. Climate change has brought a noticeable rise in drought and desertification. 258 million people in African have no access to clean water, and what is available often introduces a wide spectrum of disease or conflict into communities.

These problems bring with them a host of political, tribal, and gender issues. Community-based solutions exist; what is lacking are solutions at a global level.

See more from Brent Stirton’s ‘Water is Personal’ here.

‘[In South Sudan], women are really defined by their ability to get married and have children.’ Report from HRW, with photos by Brent Stirton

humanrightswatch:

Child Marriage: South Sudan

This visually stunning short film tells the story of child marriage in South Sudan. According to government statistics, close to half (48 percent) of South Sudanese girls between 15 and 19 are married, with some marrying as young as age 12.

Read more after the jump.

‘Women, more than men, will spend money on the care and well-being of their families, and…if a community invests in women, it is essentially investing in itself. I wanted to explore pockets of societies where this isn’t true, where poverty is directly linked to cultures that undermine women’s rights and welfare.’

Marvi’s Lacar’s film Escape documents cases of female genital mutilation in Kanya’s Massai tribe, and the lives of girls who have escaped forced marriages to older men.  Read more about the project on Motion Arts Pro.

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‘As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come across 30-40 people lying face down on the ground, with their hands on their heads. It’s already too late, we have walked right into an ambush. Heavily armed men in military uniforms stop our vehicle, and throw us to the ground with the rest. I am wearing the full hijab, or abaya. I am afraid, very afraid. I don’t think they have seen me properly yet. Here, in these Malian lands, I would be worth a lot of money as a hostage… I think of my daughter. What was I thinking coming here?’   - Veronique de Viguerie has been covering the conflict in Mali, see more here.

‘As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come across 30-40 people lying face down on the ground, with their hands on their heads. It’s already too late, we have walked right into an ambush. Heavily armed men in military uniforms stop our vehicle, and throw us to the ground with the rest. I am wearing the full hijab, or abaya. I am afraid, very afraid. I don’t think they have seen me properly yet. Here, in these Malian lands, I would be worth a lot of money as a hostage… I think of my daughter. What was I thinking coming here?’

  - Veronique de Viguerie has been covering the conflict in Mali, see more here.

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Reportage photographer Jonathan Torgovnik is among the photographers whose work is on display in “I Dream of Congo: Narratives From the Great Lakes,” an exhibition at Conway Hall in London until Feb. 23. ‘I Dream of Congo: Narratives from The Great Lakes’ will be a unique exhibition combining words and images from renowned international creatives alongside a groundbreaking exhibition of photos taken by women in eastern Congo. The exhibition and accompanying events will celebrate the hope and optimism that pervades in the region despite years of war. It will also pose hard questions around the international community’s inaction in the face of the conflict, the continuing illicit trade in minerals from Congo and the failure to stem the tide of sexual violence. The show is being produced by Congo Connect, a UK-based organization that raises awareness about issues affecting eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more about the show on the Congo Connect Web site. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images)

Reportage photographer Jonathan Torgovnik is among the photographers whose work is on display in “I Dream of Congo: Narratives From the Great Lakes,” an exhibition at Conway Hall in London until Feb. 23.

‘I Dream of Congo: Narratives from The Great Lakes’ will be a unique exhibition combining words and images from renowned international creatives alongside a groundbreaking exhibition of photos taken by women in eastern Congo.

The exhibition and accompanying events will celebrate the hope and optimism that pervades in the region despite years of war. It will also pose hard questions around the international community’s inaction in the face of the conflict, the continuing illicit trade in minerals from Congo and the failure to stem the tide of sexual violence.

The show is being produced by Congo Connect, a UK-based organization that raises awareness about issues affecting eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more about the show on the Congo Connect Web site.

(Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images)

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Jonathan Torgovnik’s Intended Consequences, which documents children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide, will be shown at the Yangon Photo Festival, opening reception February 13.

Jonathan Torgovnik’s Intended Consequences, which documents children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide, will be shown at the Yangon Photo Festival, opening reception February 13.

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OWANDO, REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MAY 12, 2011: A local volunteer with the Congolese Red Cross prepares cassava cuttings tolerant to mosaic disease, a plant virus which limits production of the important food crop, that will be distributed to the local population. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images for ICRC) Jonathan Torgovnik has been named a Canon Explorer.

OWANDO, REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MAY 12, 2011: A local volunteer with the Congolese Red Cross prepares cassava cuttings tolerant to mosaic disease, a plant virus which limits production of the important food crop, that will be distributed to the local population. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images for ICRC)

Jonathan Torgovnik has been named a Canon Explorer.

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‘When the conflict began in the town, we stayed at home, and the shooting increased. The next day, we got the message that we would each have to find a way to leave on our own. We left and were trying to go to a village, and when we stopped to rest along the way, we saw Jeanne, who was by herself. There was no one there. At first we thought she was just a child like the others…by evening we noticed that no one had come to get her, and that was when we realized that she was alone, and I decided to take her with us. I paid the porters $40 so that she could cross over from the other side of the river. Before coming back down here, we walked around showing Jeanne to different groups of displaced people to see if they recognized her and if they were her family, or knew them. That was how I decided to keep her with me, as my daughter. In wartime, children panic, and if you’re not careful, they may run away from home and not return.’  - Carine, a mother of four in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is also caring for Jeanne, an orphan See the full feature: Effects of Conflict in The DRC, by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala for ICRC

‘When the conflict began in the town, we stayed at home, and the shooting increased. The next day, we got the message that we would each have to find a way to leave on our own. We left and were trying to go to a village, and when we stopped to rest along the way, we saw Jeanne, who was by herself. There was no one there. At first we thought she was just a child like the others…by evening we noticed that no one had come to get her, and that was when we realized that she was alone, and I decided to take her with us. I paid the porters $40 so that she could cross over from the other side of the river. Before coming back down here, we walked around showing Jeanne to different groups of displaced people to see if they recognized her and if they were her family, or knew them. That was how I decided to keep her with me, as my daughter.

In wartime, children panic, and if you’re not careful, they may run away from home and not return.’

 - Carine, a mother of four in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is also caring for Jeanne, an orphan

See the full feature: Effects of Conflict in The DRC, by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala for ICRC

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