MSF 'People On The Move' World Refugee Day exhibition preview - in pictures

From the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Iraq and Bosnia, powerful images capture the displaced

Souleman was rescued on August 23 last year from a rubber boat, along with his wife Layla and son Cillian, 2, during the maiden voyage of the Sea-Watch 4. They were trying to leave Libya and were taken to a quarantine ferry in Palermo, Italy. MSF

Sawkina, 27. She is a Rohingya refugee. Although she was born and raised in Malaysia, she does not have Malaysian nationality. She has been granted UN refugee status but a broken leg from a traffic accident has prevented her from working for several weeks. Arnaud Finistre / MSF

A migrant shows the wounds allegedly inflicted on him by Croatian police. Two days earlier, he had come back from the Bosnian border with Croatia to a nearby squat in an abandoned former factory. Kristof Vadino / MSF

The Hamadayet border crossing, where refugees from Ethiopia cross a river into Sudan. New arrivals take whatever belongings they can carry with them. Some have their livestock but others left with nothing. Jason Rizzo / MSF

A young woman cooks an evening meal for her family in Abagana camp, Nigeria. Scott Hamilton / MSF

Refugees in Zintan DC, Libya, at the gate of the main warehouse where 700 of them were detained. Jerome Tubiana / MSF

Daily life at a camp for internally displaced people in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Thousands fled their homes because of intercommunal violence. Pablo Garrigos / MSF

A young survivor, just six-days-old, on board the 'Ocean Viking' rescue ship operated by MSF. She was rescued from a wooden boat in September 2019 at just four-days-old, along with her mother and older brother. Hannah Wallace Bowman/MSF

MSF and SOS Mediterranee teams on board the 'Ocean Viking' rescued 84 people in February 2020 from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat off the coast of Libya. Hannah Wallace Bowman / MSF

Rahamu, in the orange scarf, is the chosen representative of a number of displaced people who live on an old construction site in the Zamfara state in Nigeria. Rahamu’s former village is now deserted. Benedicte Kurzen/Noor

A resident in Bama camp, Nigeria, chops firewood, a precious commodity for many displaced people. Scott Hamilton / MSF

Displaced children in Lanao del Sur, the Philippines, play near the Sagunsungan camp more than two years since fighting in the regional capital, Marawi, between the government and extremist rebels. Veejay Villafranca / MSF

Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee teams conducting simulation search and rescue exercises at sea. Anthony Jean / SOS Mediterranee

More than 200 migrants were rescued by the Sea-Watch 4 in August 2020. Hannah Wallace Bowman / MSF

Since the end of March 2019, more than 15,0000 people have been displaced from Yemen's northern Hajjah governorate, adding to an existing 100,000 people already displaced. Hareth Mohammed/MSF

Syrian-Kurdish refugees play football inside the Bardarah refugee camp, Iraq, in October 2019. Moises Saman / Magnum Photos

A girl, 12, in Katale camp in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She does her homework during the last daylight hours in front of her hut. Pablo Garrigos / MSF

In Turin, hundreds of marginalised migrants and refugees live in four buildings of the Italian city's former 2006 Olympic Village, facing overcrowding, no heating and frequent disruptions to water and electricity supplies. Giuseppe La Rosa / MSF

La Bestia, known as the Death Train, is used as a means of transportation by migrants, mainly Salvadorans, Hondurans and Guatemalans, trying to reach the US. Leo Coulongeat / Hans Lucas

Newly arrived Syrian-Kurdish refugees on a bus operated by the International Organisation for Migration in Iraq's Sahela Border Crossing in November 2019. Moises Saman / Magnum Photos

The day after a September 2020 fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Enri Canaj / Magnum

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