March 12, 2008 Nothing left to lose: A landless peasant in Brazil resists state police forcibly moving her and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a piece of private property in the Brazilian Amazon. Their bows and arrows were no match for tear gas and trained dogs.
March 18, 2008 Playing amid the rubble: A young Iraqi girls fiddles with her chewing gum amid the ruins of a former Iraqi military headquarters destroyed early in the American invasion of 2003. Her family calls the ruins home.
May 2, 2008 An Iraqi boy looks on skeptically as he is dwarfed by a US soldier in Baghdad.
May 8, 2008 A boy in Indonesia prepares to siphon off fuel from a container. At the time, oil prices were reaching record highs.
June 6, 2008 A boy runs as tear gas canisters rain down on demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, protesting Israel's erection of a separation barrier.
October 14, 2008 Younger victims of the drought in Indonesia: Children bathe in waste water in Jakarta.
November 8, 2008 A male student waits to be rescued from the rubble of a school that had collapsed on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The collapse killed more than 90 students and teachers and left 150 wounded.
Novermber 21, 2008 If it wasn't school collapses or devastating tropical storms, in 2008, the grossly impoverished island nation of Haiti was also the scene of scores of tragic deaths of children caused by malnutrition. Here, a 4-year-old girl embraces an aid worker preparing her to be weighed.
