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Refugees huddle over their mobile phones ringing the Skype number they have been told to use to register for possible relocation elsewhere in Europe, but they never get an answer.
Two Afghan sisters pass fearful nights inside another train where they say men knock on the door at all hours. “We don’t feel safe,” they tell me.
The Greek government is urging people at Idomeni to voluntarily relocate to one of about 30 official camps set up around Greece.
But, few want to go.
After making the arduous journey to Greece, there’s little appeal to staying in a remote camp with marginal facilities in a country which is itself in economic crisis.
Each year the contest celebrates the best of single-exposure visual journalism from across the globe. Many winners who were documenting the refugee crisis. But the photos covered a wide range of topics, including the Paris attacks, the earthquake in Nepal and protests in the US over police violence.
BB Bisma Ndoye defeats the wrestler Maraka Dji in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar, Sierra Leone, 05 April 2015. (Credit: Christian Bobst, Switzerland, 2015)
Warren Richardson’s photo — of a man handing a baby under barbed wire on the Serbian-Hungarian border —took the top prize this year.
“I camped with the refugees for five days on the border. A group of about 200 people arrived, and they moved under the trees along the fence line. They sent women and children, then fathers and elderly men first. I must have been with this crew for about five hours and we played cat and mouse with the police the whole night. I was exhausted by the time I took the picture,” (Credit: Warren Richardson, Australia, 2015, Hope for a New Life)
At dusk, the skyline of central Pyongyang, North Korea, April 12, 2011 (Credit: David Guttenfelder, USA, 2015 )
Divers observe and surround a humpback whale and her newborn calf whilst they swim around Roca Partida in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, January 28, 2015. (Credit: Anuar Patjane Floriuk, Mexico, 2015, Whale Whisperers )
The body of a victim killed in gang-related violence. This is the fourth gang-related killing on the same street in one night. Police have no witnesses. San Pedro Sula, Honduras. March 4, 2015. (Credit: Niclas Hammarström, Sweden, 2015, Gang-related Violence )
Tibetan prayer flags, known as Lung-ta, on a hillside in the Larung Valley of Sertar County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China, October 30, 2015. (Credit: Kevin Frayer, Canada, 2015, Getty Images )
Mysterious Chinese cartoonist Badiucao has been living in exile in Australia, but the
China Digital Times just published a collection of Badiucao’s cartoons in an e-book called Watching Big Brother: Political Cartoons by Badiucao.
In the wake of the Paris Attack French President François Hollande was quick to denounce the alleged attackers, ‘Daesh.’ Many people call this same jihadist group ISIS. Alternatively they’ve been called ISIL and even the Islamic State. But many in the Arab speaking world and increasingly Western leaders have taken to calling the group ‘Daesh.'
In this mini-episode of The World in Words podcast we explore the meaning of the term 'Daesh.’ How do you pronounce it? Who coined it? And why does the group previously referred to as ISIS or ISIL dislike it so much?
The Philippines has an estimated 14 million indigenous peoples. The majority are living in remote villages threatened by destructive mining, development aggression, and militarization.
