Photojournalist Donna DeCesare’s new bilingual book chronicles the lives of Central American gang members on both sides of the border. It’s called “Unsettled.” DeCesare teaches journalism at the University of Texas, Austin. http://ow.ly/jN7x7
Photo of the Day: Nepalese women take part in a protest against what they say is an increase in violence against women, outside the Prime Minister’s official residence in Kathmandu.
The women demand the government to implement stronger laws and take firm action against violence on women, after a series of rapes and assaults were reported over the past couple of weeks from all over Nepal. (Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)
Photo of the Day: A man smokes a cigarette as he chews qat, a mild stimulant, at a market place in the Old Sanaa city. Qat dominates life in Yemen, where most men spend half the day chewing it, even at work. Experts say it is ravaging Yemen’s frail economy and sucking up precious water. (Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)
Photo of the Day: A woman holds a child in Marka’s main hospital in Somalia. Responding to several reported cases of cholera and dengue fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF sent medical personnel to Marka to assess the main hospital’s facilities and general health needs. (Photo: REUTERS/Tobin Jones/AU-UN IST)
Photo of the Day: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who is also the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), leaves a news conference at his party’s election headquarters in Tokyo.
Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) surged back to power in an election on Sunday, just three years after a devastating defeat, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe. Voters had expressed disappointment with Noda’s DPJ, which swept to power in 2009 promising to pay more heed to consumers than companies and reduce bureaucrats’ control of policymaking. (Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato)
Dutch historical consultant Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse found some old WWII era negatives at an Amsterdam flea market a few years ago. She decided to mash up the old photos with their present day locations. The result is a project called Ghosts of History.
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Photo of the Day: Hiet Ratt, 34, displays a portrait of U.S. President Barack Obama on the roof of his house near Phnom Penh Airport. Around 182 families living around the airport have been served eviction notices ahead of Obama’s historic visit to the country as it hosts the ASEAN and East Asia summits.
Residents say that they want Obama’s help when he is in the country this week in getting fair compensation, and that authorities did not say when they will evict them from their homes. (Photo: REUTERS/Samrang Pring)
Photo of the Day: A woman applies traditional Henna dye on the legs of her daughts in their hut in a slum area of the Akhdam community near Sanaa.
Yemeni Akhdam, or servants, are similar to hereditary castes, but are distinguished by their Africa features and the menial jobs they perform. Widespread prejudice places the Akhdam at the bottom of Yemen’s social ladder. (Photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Photo of the Day: Delegates sit at the stage before the opening ceremony of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
China’s outgoing President Hu Jintao said the nation faced risk and opportunity in equal measure as he formally opened a congress of the ruling Communist Party that will usher in a once-in-a-decade leadership change. (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Lee)
