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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • Sex workers talk with women trying to help them who work for Quito's Office of Social Inclusion.  They are issuing official identification cards to prostitutes and attempting to help improve their working conditions. They stand on the street near the Santa Domingo cathedral in the historic district.
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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • Talia, a transgender prostitute waits on an empty street in the historic Colonial district looking for clients outside a Quito hotel. <br />
Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • Transgender prostitutes walk the streets in the historic district of Quito waiting for clients. Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • A transgender prostitute waits for clients outside a Quito hotel in the Colonial historic district. Workers look out for each other and are issued official identification cards from the city that is trying to improve their working conditions.
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  • A transgender prostitute talks with another sex worker in a hotel doorway while they wait for clients in Quito's historic district. The city streets are divided up by prostitutes who look out for each other. The city is issuing identification cards and trying to improve conditions for workers.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums outside Mumbai.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums congregate at their front door. These are the third largest slums in the world.  The world bank is trying to work out an arrangement where all of these squatters will get about twice the space they have now in new buildings, but it is complicated.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • The Dharavi slum area of Mumbai.
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  • Women from the rural countryside learn to be maids for the newly wealthy class. They learn to cook and iron at the Fuping Vocational Skills Training School. Li responds to flying grease in one of the cooking classes.<br />
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Since opening up its economy in 1978 and moving toward a market economy, China has lifted about 400 million people out of poverty, according to the World Bank. But this has led to wide income inequalities that the Communist Party is trying to address through its notion of a “harmonious society” that has a more even distribution of the benefits of recent decades of speedy economic growth. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories. Men often get construction jobs while women work in cheap-labor factories. So many migrants leave their homes looking for work they overburden the rail system. In the Hunan province, 52 people were trampled to death in the late 1990s when 10,000 migrants were herded onto a freight train. To stem the flow of migrants, officials in Hunan and Sichuan have placed restrictions on the use of trains and buses by rural people. In some cities, the migrants almost outnumber the residents. One young girl told National Geographic, “All the young people leave our village. I’m not going back. Many can’t even afford a bus ticket and hitchhike to Beijing.” Overall, the Chinese government has tacitly supported migration as means of transforming China from a rural-based economy to an urban-based one.
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  • Laundry and stuffed animal on a clothesline in Kireka.
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  • In Kireka, women break rocks to be used in construction materials.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • A witch doctor fertility ritual in Uganda.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • A woman relocated to Istanbul to work in a medical records department of a hospital.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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  • A Black Sea agricultural family relocated to Istanbul for work.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Mother with baby born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Maternity Ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.  Head of OB/GYN was taught by Jotham Musinguzi who became head of Population and Development Dept. for the government.  Jotham recently retired because he did not agree with the current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni has a military background and just wants to get BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Jotham said he wants to bump Uganda's population up to 60M before he even starts to worry about infrastructure for all these people. Uganda is about 30M now.  About half of Uganda's population is under 15 and life expectancy is about 50.  Population has doubled from 1990 to now.
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  • This is the Kireka area just outside Kampala, Uganda.  Most all of these laborers are from Gulu in the north... insecurity with LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so the gravel can be used for construction materials.  The mothers in these families make about 50 cents a day breaking the rocks their husbands haul out of the quarries.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock in the Kireka area just outside Kampala.  Most all of these folks are from Gulu in the north. Insecurity with the LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so gravel can be used in construction materials.
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  • Street scene of Kireka outside Kampala.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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  • A Ugandan man uses a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • A Ugandan child watches a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • A woman relocated to Istanbul to work in a medical records department of a hospital heads to work on a city bus.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • Federal Immigration Service conducts a raid at a construction site.
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  • Federal Immigration Service conducts a raid at a construction site.
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  • The Federal Immigration Service conducts an early morning raid.
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  • The Federal Immigration Service conducts an early morning raid.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Russian parents with their two children.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A nurse holds up a newborn for excited family members waiting outside.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Bathing in a sidewalk trough on the streets of Kolkata.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Moscow Planning Center and Reproduction Maternity Home.
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  • Profiles on display at blind date event organized by a dating agency.
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  • Women from the rural countryside learn skills at the Fuping Vocational Skills Training School to be maids for the newly wealthy comfort class. Since opening up its economy in 1978 and moving toward a market economy, China has lifted about 400 million people out of poverty, but this has led to wide income inequalities. The Communist Party is trying to address this through its notion of a “harmonious society” that has a more even distribution of the benefits of recent decades of speedy economic growth. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China is now experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—an expected 250 million by 2012, and 300 to perhaps 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories. Overall, the Chinese government has tacitly supported migration as means of transforming China from a rural-based economy to an urban-based one.
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  • A city bus squeaks to a stop at a park in North Quito and riders crowd in filling empty seats. Talia, carefully coiffed and a fresh coat of lipstick, steadies herself to  ride a bus to Quito's historic district where she will join her friends on streets where transgender prostitutes are allowed to work.
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  • A dog watches as a transgender prostitute walks through the neighborhood to her apartment in north Quito.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • Illegal Senegalese street vendors living in Barcelona.
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  • A family detained in Barcelona because family member is suspected terrorist.
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  • An Iraqi family displaced by war awaits orders to move from temporary housing.
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  • A naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Overview of Kampala Uganda.
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  • Immigrant Indians at a Sikh festival in Barcelona.
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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • A transgender sex worker eats lunch at a restaurant with her aunt and a friend while they wait for their clothing to dry at the laundromat in a mall in a Quito neighborhood.
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  • Surrounded by makeup and clothes, a transgender sex worker pins blonde hair pieces or extensions into her hair as she gets ready to go into Quito for work.
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  • A transgender sex worker straightens her hair extension while getting ready for work. She has her own room and lives with her aunt taking the bus nightly to the historic district of Quito.
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  • A transgender sex worker walks home to her apartment in a neighborhood on the edge of Quito.
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  • A transgender prostitute gives a warning to man harassing her on the street  while waits for clients in the historic district of Quito.
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  • Talia, a transgender prostitute waits for clients on deserted, city streets in the historic district outside a Quito hotel.
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  • A transgender prostitute waits for clients in a room at a Quito hotel.
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  • It is a slow night as a sex worker sits in the lobby of the hotel where she and other transgender sex workers rent rooms for 30 minutes. The city of Quito is working to organize sex workers to help their conditions.
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  • Checking her make up, Talia, a transgender prostitute rides in the back row of a city bus headed to Quito's historic district.
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  • Talia watches out to the window as she rides a city bus to Quito's historic district.  A transgender prostitute, she connects with other sex worker friends who look out for each other's safety. The city is trying to improve conditions for sex workers and giving them official identification cards.
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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • Talia's aunt grooms her hair before the transgender sex worker takes the bus to work in the historic district of Quito.
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  • A transgender sex worker talks with her aunt in a neighborhood where they live in Quito. Talia says her family threw her out because they didn’t accept her, but her aunt took her in.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • People wait in line for food in Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • People wait in line for food in Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • The Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • Men watch a dancer at a bar.
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  • A dancer at a bar.
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  • This is the Armani Club in the Liu lin Road area. This scene is a mix of young folks, mistresses, and male and female prostitutes. Bars are a little crazier in the south of China where there is new wealth.  Young people demand nice places to eat and drink. By 2015, the number of Chinese adults under 30 is expected to swell 61%, to 500 million, equivalent to the entire population of the European Union.
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  • Dancing at a pick up club for mistresses and male prostitutes.
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