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#13067674
7 December 2025
Many build temporary shelters using bamboo in Karail Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 5, 2025.
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#13037029
29 November 2025
A worker spreads freshly washed plastic bags across an open riverside area to dry under the sun after cleaning them in the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The recycled plastic is later melted and remanufactured, despite the environmental and health risks involved in this informal processing system.
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#13037023
29 November 2025
Workers wash used plastic bags in the polluted waters of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, before drying and processing them for resale. Despite the river's severe contamination, informal recycling workers use the water as part of their daily routine, highlighting the environmental degradation and hazardous conditions surrounding Dhaka's plastic-recycling trade.
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#12948773
4 November 2025
A fruit vendor rests on a makeshift chair beside his cart on a roadside in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on November 4, 2025. Street vendors remain a vital part of the city's informal economy, offering affordable produce to passersby amid the hustle of daily urban life.
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#12926372
30 October 2025
Houses stand tightly packed along the polluted Duri River at Tanjung Selor Street in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 29, 2025. The stagnant green water and fragile stilt foundations highlight the ongoing challenges of urban sanitation, housing inequality, and environmental degradation in the capital's informal riverbank settlements.
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#12926376
30 October 2025
Riverside houses built on fragile wooden stilts line the murky Duri River at Tanjung Selor Street in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 29, 2025. The reflection of these informal structures on the polluted water highlights the stark contrast between the city's modernization efforts and the persistent presence of urban slums in the heart of the capital.
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#12926377
30 October 2025
Rusting metal sheets and decaying wooden stilts form the fragile walls of riverside homes along the Duri River at Tanjung Selor Street in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 29, 2025. The image captures the stark reality of urban poverty that endures in the country's capital city, where residents live in unsafe and makeshift housing conditions.
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#12926379
30 October 2025
A row of makeshift houses stands precariously above the polluted Duri River at Tanjung Selor Street in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 29, 2025. Despite being in the nation's capital, home to Indonesia's central government, slum settlements like this continue to exist, highlighting the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inadequate housing.
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#12926374
30 October 2025
Laundry hangs above fragile, uneven homes built from patched materials along the Duri River at Tanjung Selor Street in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 29, 2025. The image reflects the precarious living conditions faced by urban poor communities who reside in unsafe riverbank settlements within the capital city.
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#12882109
19 October 2025
Street children collect plastic bottles from the trash dump in Kolkata, India, on October 19, 2025.
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#12665427
22 August 2025
Laborers work at a makeshift leather-boiling workshop in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 21, 2025. Small pieces of leather are boiled to produce glue, releasing polluted air and harmful chemicals. Although many tanneries are relocated to the leather processing zone in Savar to reduce pollution, several such informal factories still remain in Hazaribagh.
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#12665428
22 August 2025
Laborers work at a makeshift leather-boiling workshop in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 21, 2025. Small pieces of leather are boiled to produce glue, releasing polluted air and harmful chemicals. Although many tanneries are relocated to the leather processing zone in Savar to reduce pollution, several such informal factories still remain in Hazaribagh.
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#12616355
4 August 2025
A child rag picker searches and collects plastic bottles and other reusable items at a roadside garbage dump in Siliguri, India, on August 4, 2025.
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#12590661
27 July 2025
A rag picker searches for recyclable materials at roadside household dumps in Siliguri, India, on July 27, 2025.
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#12552027
13 July 2025
A person walks inside a slum in Kolkata, India, on July 13, 2025.
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#12538355
8 July 2025
Mounted police officers ride through a meadow while young people observe them and others relax in the English Garden, Englischer Garten in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on July 6, 2025.
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