11 years old, Taha (Taha Sirhan) (right) took the Iraqi flag in a burned oil field in the Qayyarah area in southeastern Mosul, Iraq. His father was killed during the occupation of ISIS because his father worked for the Iraqi police.
when photographer Mohamed Roushdy Eldor photographed this picture in Cairo, Egypt, he asked the little boy if he could smile, and he answered "no".
in Benin, West Africa, a two year old child of a Betamarribe tribe is experiencing a painful ritual of circumcision that is the ancient tradition of the tribe.