The Tale of Erbil’s Rubbish Pickers, photo essay by Aza Yousif
"Kanî Qirjale" is the the rubbish dump for the City of Erbil where the whole the families with their children working as rubbish pickers in horrible conditions.
"Kanî Qirjale" is the the rubbish dump for the City of Erbil where the whole the families with their children working as rubbish pickers in horrible conditions.
Their battle, I believe, is harder than that of their male counterparts, as they are not only fighting for their basic rights as Kurds, but also as women, in societies that are heavily male-dominated.
Mehdi Monem, Civilian Victims of Iran-Iraq War. PRIVATE 58, p. 62-63 (62-65) Buy PRIVATE 58 In September 22nd 1980, Iran-Iraq war started with the bombardment of some Iranian cities. In the beginning, no one could imagine that this war would be one of the longest wars of the history. During...
Six years after the war in Iraq began, one million Iraqis and over four thousand Americans are dead, tens of thousands of Americans and Iraqis are left injured, and well over 5 million refugees have fled their country.
have been working on a photographic project dealing with memory since 1989. Every report leads me to places full of the history of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire where stories from my imagination took place. After the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, humanitarian help was for me the way to...
