02-02-2020 - Oaxaca, Mexico: Triqui unity rally, central square. The area of western Oaxaca where they live is one of the poorest regions of Mexico. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty and violence to le... © Jim West

02-02-2016 - Oaxaca, Mexico Triqui ethnic group protest their displacement from their homes and the violence that prevades the area of western Oaxaca where they live. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty... © Jim West

02-02-2016 - Oaxaca, Mexico Triqui ethnic group protest their displacement from their homes and the violence that prevades the area of western Oaxaca where they live. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty... © Jim West

02-02-2016 - Oaxaca, Mexico Triqui ethnic group protest their displacement from their homes and the violence that prevades the area of western Oaxaca where they live. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty... © Jim West

02-02-2016 - Oaxaca, Mexico Triqui ethnic group protest their displacement from their homes and the violence that prevades the area of western Oaxaca where they live. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty... © Jim West

02-02-2016 - Oaxaca, Mexico Triqui ethnic group protest their displacement from their homes and the violence that prevades the area of western Oaxaca where they live. Many Triquis have been forced through poverty... © Jim West

22-01-2011 - Colombia, mother keeping her children up with traditional customs by teaching them indigenous games and traditions. An internally displaced indigenous family in a poor neighbourhood in Villavicencio,... © Boris Heger

20-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous men who just came back from a weeks hunting, show their family members traditional medicinal herbs they have found. San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia. © Boris Heger

20-01-2011 - Colombia, Internally displaced indigenous people moving their handicrafts into their shelter. San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia. © Boris Heger

17-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous shaman medicine man explaining to young members of his tribe the Ayahuasca root locally called "Yage". This hallucinogen drug is commonly used by some latin a... © Boris Heger

17-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous shaman medicine man explaining to young members of his tribe the Ayahuasca root locally called "Yage". This hallucinogen drug is commonly used by some latin a... © Boris Heger

17-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous shaman medicine man explaining to young members of his tribe the Ayahuasca root locally called "Yage". This hallucinogen drug is commonly used by some latin a... © Boris Heger

17-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous shaman medicine man explaining to young members of his tribe the Ayahuasca root locally called "Yage". This hallucinogen drug is commonly used by some latin a... © Boris Heger

17-01-2011 - Colombia, internally displaced indigenous shaman medicine man explaining to young members of his tribe the Ayahuasca root locally called "Yage". This hallucinogen drug is commonly used by some latin a... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe IDPs, Tule women walking together out into the jungle to collect water and firewood. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama b... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe IDPs, Tule women performing traditional dances. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe IDPs performing traditional music. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their culture is b... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe IDPs, Tule village chief wearing a collar of monkey teeth he himself had hunted. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama borde... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Panama, indigenous Tule primary school pupils waiting for their lesson to start. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. There a... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule. Tule general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made. Men sit on one side women on the other, women bring the men traditional drinks. This village... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe. General assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made. Men sit, as ladies stand or bring them traditional drinks. Chiefs lie in hammocks and listen... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe. A Tule general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made. Men sit, as ladies stand or bring them traditional drinks. Chiefs lie in hammocks and... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe, general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made.. Men sit, as women stand or bring them traditional drinks. Chief and the Sayla lie in hammoc... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe, Tule girls who have just started their periods must for the first year stand apart from the community. A Tule general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all de... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe, Tule girls who have just started their periods must for the first year stand apart from the community. A Tule general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all de... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe, general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made. Men sit, as ladies stand or bring them traditional drinks. Chiefs lie in hammocks and listen... © Boris Heger

06-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, The Tule tribe general assembly in the chiefs hut during which all decisions are made. Men sit, as women stand or bring them traditional drinks. The Chief lies in a hammock and lis... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs, mother, her child and a Kuna Wini. The black, vertical line down the center of the nose adds beauty and as it originates from the palu wala (tree of life) protects... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs woman sewing a Mola. In Tule belief, each object contains many different qualities or energies. These qualities are reflected in the many colors that are within and... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs woman sewing a Mola showing it to a child. In Tule belief, each object contains many different qualities or energies. These qualities are reflected in the many colo... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs. Grandmother singing a traditional song to her grandchild in the native language, Dulegaya, and with a rattle.. Most younger Tule do not know the meaning of that so... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs family relaxing in hammocks. They rest with a siesta during the hottest part of the day. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Pan... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs, a woman chopping wood. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their culture is based on a... © Boris Heger

05-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs, a woman coming back from fetching wood. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their cultu... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs. Women making traditional Tule handicrafts, spinning cloth. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Dari... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs. Women making traditional Tule handicrafts, spinning cloth. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Dari... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs. Woman coming back from fetching firewood. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their cul... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe. Women cooking in their home. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. There are only a few thousa... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe women cooking their home. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. There are only a few thousands... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe woman dying her hair blue black with a natural pigment extracted from a root. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border regio... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs, family relaxing outside their hut. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their culture is... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs, family relaxing outside their hut. This village of Indigenous Tule have been displaced by conflict, to the Panama border region of the Darien gap. Their culture is... © Boris Heger

04-05-2010 - Darien Gap, Panama, Tule tribe IDPs. Stocks, a punishment device used to immobilize members of the tribe who broke the code of conduct - the time people should stay there depends on the decision taken... © Boris Heger

28-05-2008 - Indigenous Nahuatl campesinos, or small farmers, erect a planton, or encampment, and demonstrate every day on the Reforma in downtown Mexico City. The farmers come from the Four Hundred Towns, a rural... © David Bacon

21-03-2005 - View of building destroyed during the war where a group of unemployed woman founded a small cooperative to make clothes, Grozny, Chechnya, March 2005. © Boris Heger

21-03-2005 - View of building destroyed during the war where a group of unemployed woman founded a small cooperative to make clothes, Grozny, Chechnya, March 2005. © Boris Heger

05-03-2005 - Posters commemorating the first man and woman Tamil Tigers suicide bombers displayed on Black Tiger day in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka 2005 © Howard Davies

05-03-2005 - A motorbike passes a sign for a landmine field in northern Sri Lanka where hundreds of thousands of landmines and ordnance litter the countryside. Jaffna district, Sri Lanka 2005 © Howard Davies

17-02-2005 - A makeshift tented IDP camp close to the Mosque at Lampuuk which was severely damaged in the Tsunami. Aceh, Indonesia 2005 © Jim Holmes

01-07-2004 - The Serb Orthodox Church of St. Sava after being set on fire by angry Kosovo Albanian protesters in Mitrovica during ethnic cleansing by Albanians in an outbreak of ethnic violence, which also led to... © Andrija Ilic

05-03-1983 - School for Cambodian refugees. Khao I Dhang Holding Centre, Thailand, 1983 © Masanori Kobayashi