Women and war - photographs by Jenny Matthews 
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Chad. Bredjing camp for Sudanese refugees. Monthly food distribution.
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Chad. Bredjing camp for Sudanese refugees. Women come back to camp after collecting animal fodder.
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Iraq Baghdad. Queuing for propane gas in extreme heat. This is used for cooking. The price has increased and people were waiting for ages to buy it.
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Iraq, Basra. Girl walking past troop carrier which still measured considerably radiation.... it was hit by a depleted uranium tipped rocket 30.3.03
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Iraq, Bagdad. Rashad mental hospital patient. Sanctions war and bombing have taken a heavy toll on mental heath.
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Rwanda, Kabgayi. Scene of a massacre during the genocide. Even the mannequins at this teaching hospital were mutilated.
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Afghanistan, Syakamar village. Cemetry. Front Attalullah and Rabia, behind Zamen and Elia Ahmad, with members of the community praying at the graves of their dead babies who have died due to the malnutrition of their mothers during the drought.
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Afghanistan, Mazar i Sharif. Torn election posters. Although two women stood for president their posters were frequently torn down or mutilated.
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Afghan election August 09. Women voting.
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Afghanistan, Kabul. SEFURA, 'The Taliban killed my husband in 2001. He was in the military. I have 4 daughters and 2 sons. I have to marry off two of my daughters. I wish my husband was still alive, he would have protected them'.
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Afghanistan, Kabul 2009. Lila lost her eye... around 35, now a widow with 3 daughters, no son.
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Afghanistan, Kabul. Beauty school. Arizu Hayden has her hair done by Zahera Mohamadi.
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Pakistan. Teacher and pupil at a school organised by Khwendo Kor, an NGO working for the empowerment of women and children in Pakistan's conservative North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Waziristan.
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Russian, Beslan, North Ossetia. The mothers committee hold a meeting at the gym where bombing tool place in 2004.
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Beirut. Sri Lankan embassy. Housemaids wait to be repatriated.
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Qawala camp, Suleimanya, Kurdistan. Displaced people who fled South Iraq, and now live on a rubbish dump. Marwan Ibrahim 18 (on the right) with her father Khalil Ibrahim Salam and mother and sister (left)
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Qawala camp, Suleimanya, Iraq. Camp for displaced people, 3 kms from city centre, home to 136 families from Baghdad, Dyala and Mosul. Taybah Hameed and her mother in front of their tent doing the washing up.
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DRC, Goma 2008. Nyiragongo area, Bogerere village. Florence (not her real name) rape victim.
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Gaza, Jebel Rayas area, Jabalya. January 2009. Halima in front of her destroyed home.
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Gaza, Palestine 2009. Netsarin. The home of Tahane Abu Da'her aged 24, mother of three - Mohammed 3 months, Sara 2 and Khaleed 3. The family left when they were told and then it was bombed.
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