Soldier leans on his rifle in a graveyard in San Salvador that was damaged in clashes with anti-government rebels, El Salvador, 11/1989

Pro-Abkhaz fighter during an attack on Georgian government troops in the regional Sukhumi, 09/27/1993

Member of a Russian tank crew outside the Chechen capital Grozny, 01/10/1995

Georgian demonstrators loyal to embattled President Zviad Gamsakhurdia flee a teargas attack by opposition fighters in Tbilisi 01/1992

Russian protestor at a rally in Moscow against reformist President Boris Yeltsin, 10/1993

Georgian fighter squeezes a fatal shrapnel wound in his neck during fighting against separatist forces on the edge of Sukhumi, Abkhazia, 09/19/1993

Mother of Georgian fighter killed by separatist forces in Sukhumi, Abkhazia grieves as a fighter from his unit kisses his forehead, 09/1993

Georgians take the body of a family member for burial after he was killed by rebels against President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Tbilisi, 01/09/1992

Sister of Georgian man killed by anti-government rebels embraces his body during his burial in Tbilisi, 01/09/1992

Pro-Abkhaz separatist troops walk past the bodies of a Georgian fighter and his dog in the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/28/1993

Pro-Abkhaz fighter in Sukhumi waits for the order to advance as separatists ousted Georgian government troops, 09/27/1993

Georgian fighter shouts in excitement after shooting a pro-Abkhaz sniper during a clash on the edge of the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/1993

Georgian civilians grieve after pro-Abkhaz forces overran their neighborhood on the edge of the regional capital Sukhumi, 09/27/1993

Georgian rebels against President Zviad Gamsakhurdia advance towards his base in the parliament building in Tbilisi, 12/25/1991

Georgian rebels embrace in the compound of the parliament building in Tbilisi after ousting President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 01/06/1992

Georgian rebels take a government informer for questioning in Tbilisi prior to ousting President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 01/06/1992

Pro-Abkhaz fighter shows his rifle to children in the regional capital Sukhumi after the defeat of Georgian loyalists, 09/27/1993

Georgian rebel pauses for a cigarette in the national art gallery in Tbilisi during fighting to capture the nearby parliament building, 12/31/1991

Girl stands amidst buildings damaged by Russian shelling in the Chechen capital Grozny, 11/1994

Ethnic Croat mother and daughter take a train out of the town of Osijek in former Yugoslavia, leaving the men to confront Serb troops, 09/91

Woman shelters from rain in the compound of a hospital in Lobone, South Sudan, 01/1996

Parliament building in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, 03/1996

Sudanese boss gives instructions to construction workers in Khartoum, 03/1996

Man plucks traditional bow harp during a casual soccer game in Juba, southern Sudan, 03/1996

Man with a chicken and a bottle of honey on the edge of a market in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997

Children play near burning brush in the Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997

Boys of Kenya’s Masai tribe in traditional warrior costumes in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi, 08/1997

Fighters of the SPLA rebel group climb over a burned-out government tank near Nimule in southern Sudan, 01/1996

Patients and a bomb crater in a hospital compound in Lobone, South Sudan, 12/1995

Marabou stork in the Ugandan capital Kampala, 02/1997

Woman with polio walks through a park in Juba, South Sudan 03/1996

Sheltering from rain under a tree in a hospital compound in Lobone, southern Sudan, 12/1995

Boy looks at his reflection in a pool of water in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997

Woman washes her son in polluted river water at Ojobo in the Niger delta, Nigeria’s main oil-producing region, 11/1998

Dinka tribesman in the Bahr el Ghazal region of southern Sudan, 03/1996

Dinka tribesman walks through a cattle camp at dawn in Bahr el Ghazal, southern Sudan, 03/1996

Amputee herdsman near the Toposa village of Natinga in southern Sudan 03/1996

Chance meeting in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, 09/1997

Sun shines through damaged buildings in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999

Girl walks past a gutted building in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999

Girl in Kuito during Angola’s civil war, 09/1999

Ethnic Hutus flee towards Burundi’s northern border after persecution by the ruling Tutsi tribe, 07/1996

A Hutu refugee with cholera from Rwanda crawls towards the town of Goma in neighboring Congo (then called Zaire), 08/1994

Bodies of Rwandan Hutu refugees killed by a cholera epidemic litter the ground in Goma, Congo (then called Zaire), 08/1994

Ethnic Hutus accused of killing Tutsis in the 1994 genocide crowd a prison in Guiterrama, Rwanda in 03/1995

Girl leans against a monument in the Liberian capital Monrovia following a brutal civil war, 04/1998

Nigerian peace-keeping troops stage a farewell march through the Liberian capital Monrovia at the end of their mission, 04/1998

Issatu Kargbo, at her family’s house outside Freetown in 08/04/1997, had her hands cut off by rebels in a campaign to terrorize civilians

Soldier seeking amnesty in Kinshasa, Congo (then called Zaire) is identified as a member of the hated presidential guard of ousted leader Joseph Mobutu, 05/1997

Dancers attached to the music group “OK Jazz” perform in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), 05/1997

Men with basins walk through a car repair yard in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), 05/1997

Hospital staff in Kikwit, Congo (then Zaire), take the body of an ebola victim for burial during the epidemic, 05/1995

Early morning on the Congo river near the village of Gombe upstream from the capital Kinshasa, 09/2001

Members of the Simon Kimbangu religious cult celebrate a marriage in Kinshasa, Congo, 09/2001

Foot of a market vendor in the village of Gombe on the Congo river upstream from Kinshasa, 09/2001

Brothel room in Ningming, southern China, with the manager, her baby, and a worker, 04/2004

Haitian mother with her baby and elder daughter in a village heavily affected by the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, 03/2006

HIV/AIDS outreach worker talks to a passer-by about condom use, Mexico City, 11/27/2005

Intravenous drug users in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 03/2006

Man shows a nurse he has swallowed his daily opiate substitution pill at a clinic for HIV-infected intravenous drug users in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, 04/2010

Sex worker squats by the doorway of the brothel in Pune, India, 01/2004

HIV-positive sex worker waits for clients in a brothel in Pune, India, watched by another girl and the madam, 01/2004