Our World – At War

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Democratic Republic of Congo Children arrive at a temporary resting place before being reunited with their families by the ICRC. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Democratic Republic of Congo A counsellor, Sifa Muhima, 47 (right), speaks with a rape victim at a "Maison d'ecoute" also known as a listening house. It is a place where victims are supposed to be given immediate medical care and support counselling after being raped. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Democratic Republic of Congo Banga Roger Bimael, 17, being reunited with his mother and family by the ICRC. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Colombia Julia Ruth Giraldo Grisales, 60, sits at her home in the Barrio La Paz neighbourhood of Apartadó, Antioquia, on February 23, 2009. Grisales, who has a handicap and requires a wheelchair as a result of a traffic accident, lost two of her sons in the conflict between the government and the country's Armed Revolutionary Forces. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Colombia The walls of a women's prison, Cárcel de Mujeres El Buen Pastor, are visible at "Patio 6" in Bogotá. Within these walls, 75 women, who have been sentenced or are facing criminal charges for rebellion and crimes committed while being part of a guerilla faction, are being detained. "Patio 6" is also home to seven children whose mothers are imprisoned. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Colombia Francisco Bolívar Hernández, 20, recovers at the Hospital Universitario Departamental de Nariño in Pasto, Nariño, on March 5, 2009. A month earlier, Hernández and his friend stepped onto a land mine. He lost his lower leg as a result, and his friend lost his eyesight. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Afghanistan Alberto Cairo, head of the ICRC's Orthopaedic programme in Afghanistan, works with a double amputee mine victim on the first day that he receives his two prostheses. Each patient learns to walk again like a child. It is vital that they are helped right from the beginning to stand and walk correctly. If a patient learns to walk well in the beginning, they will walk well for the rest of their life. If they start with bad habits, they will be very hard to cure. (James Nachtwey/VII)

Afghanistan A patient at the ICRC Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul rests amid the bustle of a crowded day. In Afghanistan, where faith and life are so intertwined, such moments of quiet have sustained people though the brutalities of three decades of war. (James Nachtwey/VII)

Liberia The Liberian national amputee football team known as the Lone Stars practising for their upcoming Africa Cup tournament in Abuja, Nigeria. (Christopher Morris/VII)

Liberia Mary Parker, a rape victim at the Child Advocacy Rehabilitation Center in Monrovia, Liberia on February 18, 2009. (Christopher Morris/VII)

Lebanon A wall shows the scars of fighting in Nahr el Bared, a Palestinian camp in Northern Lebanon, where the Lebanese Army battled an armed group called Fatah al Islam for almost four months in 2007. An estimated 400 people died in the fighting, including civilians. A great part of the camp was reduced to rubble, and the vast majority of its 40,000 inhabitants had to flee. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Lebanon During the summer 2006 war with Israel, practically almost all bakeries in Tyre closed down, leaving only this one in Rashidiyeh (plus another one in Tyre proper) to feed the population. Bread is a staple food in Lebanon. Thanks to the fuel and flour provided in part by the ICRC, this place produced up to four tons of bread per day, enough to feed 100,000 people. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Lebanon Hasniyye Yehia Tawiyyeh, 60, was displaced from Nahr el Bared camp by the fighting in 2007, and moved to the Beddawi camp in Tripoli, after losing all her belongings. But the worst for her was the death of her son, who was killed in July that year during a demonstration against the fighting. (Franco Pagetti/VII)

Haiti A mother suffering from a bullet wound lies on the floor of her home with her child. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Haiti Daily life in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital Port-au-Prince, where people are known to purchase cakes formed with mud and salt water, a food staple. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Haiti Victim Osmer Brice, who lost his arm after being caught in cross fire during gang violence is seen in the Cité Soleil on January 6, 2009. (Ron Haviv/VII)

Philippines People forced to flee warfare between government and Islamic rebel group, the Moro Liberation Front, in the town of Libutan, Maguindanao. Libutan is on the front line with three camps for internally displaced people. (James Nachtwey/VII)

Philippines Manilla City Jail. (James Nachtwey/VII)

Georgia Vasilii Zigibarts is seen at a collective centre for Abkhazians and Georgians displaced by the war in Abkhazia, from 1992 to 1993, in Zugdidi on February 24 2009. Many collective centres are simply abandoned buildings that the displaced began squatting 15 years ago, and are unsanitary, structurally unsound, and lack running water or heat. (Antonin Kratochvil/VII)

Georgia The collective centre for internally displaced people from the 1992-1993 Abkhaz conflict in Zugdidi. (Antonin Kratochvil/VII)

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Hope in a time of conflict.

The Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross teamed up with five of the world’s top war photographers, members of the VII Photo agency, to create a an exhibit called “Our World – At War”. It was launched on May 8 in New York, Geneva and 40 other countries. The exhibition focuses on individuals who have suffered from the consequences of war and those who deal with those consequences.