HAITI, Port au Prince, July 2016 GISELE, 20 years old: "My cousin told me that I had bad luck, that something was wrong with me. A friend of my parents said that he was a mason and therefore could help remove the “bad eye”. He took me to an isolated place and asked me to get naked. He touched me and raped me. I even gave him 1000 gourds. I told my family what happened. Now he is hiding, and he is under the protection of a women judge. I want justice to be done. I also know he is a recidivist. He did the same to two little girls from my neighbourhood. The parents are scared so they don’t do anything. Both girls are 15 and 12." Bénédicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Borno State, Maiduguri, May 2017 Portrait of Usan Mohamed, 20 yo. Traditional hunters have volunteered to help Nigeria's government find the Islamic militants of Boko Haram. There are about 18 000 traditional hunters who have been mobilised to help the Nigerian Armed Forces on the ground. The hunters, dressed in their warfare attires, and with their Dane guns dangling over their shoulders, vowed to rid the society of criminals. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Ghana, Busua, 01 November 2015 Portrait of a young girl. Busua is a beach resort and fishing village in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region in Ghana. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Borno State, Maiduguri, May 2017 Students of the Polytechnic School of Maiduguri celebrate their graduation around the swimming pool of a fancy hotel, no alcohol allowed but the students play different games and dance. The party ends around seven o'clock as there is still a ten o'clock curfew. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Borno State, Maiduguri, May 2017 Aisha has been kidnapped in 2016 by Boko Haram after Boko Haram attacked her farm and killed her husband. She was taken with her children to Gwoza where she was forcefully married to a member of the sect. She managed to come back to Maiduguri saw months ago and now is staying in Dalori refugee camp where she struggles to find ways to feed her children and shares a room with seven other people. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Lagos, December, 2017 Denrele Edun a famous figure in the Nigerian media and movie industry poses for "A Nasty Boy" fashion shoot. B�dicte Kurzen / NOOR

HAITI, Port au Prince, July 2016 GISELE, 20 years old: "My cousin told me that I had bad luck, that something was wrong with me. A friend of my parents said that he was a mason and therefore could help remove the “bad eye”. He took me to an isolated place and asked me to get naked. He touched me and raped me. I even gave him 1000 gourds. I told my family what happened. Now he is hiding, and he is under the protection of a women judge. I want justice to be done. I also know he is a recidivist. He did the same to two little girls from my neighbourhood. The parents are scared so they don’t do anything. Both girls are 15 and 12." Bénédicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Lagos, December, 2017 At the DayDream pool party on a new building in a development area in Lagos. B�dicte Kurzen / NOOR

Lydia Patrick, 25 years old, has been attacked with her village at night, in March 2010. She tried to protect her face with her hands, which have been cut. The attack was perpetrated by nomad pastoral Fulanis, Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, the 22nd of December 2011. Her life now will never be the same as she cannot attend domestic tasks anymore, and therefore get married. The tensions between nomads and farmers are old in the Middle Belt. One more time they divide religious, ethnic communities.

Nigeria, Lagos, December, 2017 At the DayDream pool party on a new building in a development area in Lagos. B�dicte Kurzen / NOOR

Haiti, near Caracol, July 2016 Willy Davilmar, poses in front of the wall build around the industrial park. He lost land. In January 2011, 442 families lost the land they had cultivated for decades in Caracol, Northern Haiti, to make way for one of the flagship projects of post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti: the Caracol Industrial Park. The project was led by the Haitian government, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United States Department of State (USAID), and was mainly and geared toward making clothes for export to the United States. 5 yeas later, the living conditions of the majority of women and men who lost their land to the project have deteriorated due to the loss of their land and the lack of fair and adequate compensation and rehabilitation. They have united in a collective of victims which has called on the Haitian government and the IDB to initiate a new and fair compensation process, and are about to file a complaint at the IDB's independent accountability mechanism. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

International Waters, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, October 2016 France recently moved the Charles de Gaulle -- or "CDG" as the crew calls it -- to the Mediterranean Sea, close to the Syrian coast. The move comes as Iraqi-led forces have begun what is expected to be a messy and prolonged offensive to seize the country's second-largest city, Mosul. Several times per hour the crew launches between four and 10 fighter jets, many of them armed and headed for Iraq and Syria. The Rafale M will fly three different types of missions. First up is "Close Air Support," where jets essentially loiter around the airspace waiting for allied ground forces to call on them to hit ISIS targets. All strikes must go through the central coalition targeting center, led by the US, and be approved by the French military. Secondly, the Rafales will conduct pre-planned air strikes against ISIS facilities and leaders. And thirdly, the aircraft will take pictures of ISIS installations and personnel, to be used in later strikes. A mix of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish and Arab fighters, as well as supporting US and French personnel, have already taken significant ground around Mosul and the final offensive is believed to be imminent. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Ismail Osman (32) works as a mechanic specialised in Japanese cars, in Suame Magazine, Kumasi, Ghana, August 2015. Suame Magazine is an industrialized area with many workshops for metal engineering and vehicle repairs in Ghana, employing an estimated 200,000 workers. It is located 10 kilometers from Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region. It is in the Suame constituency of Ghana and part of the KMA's administrative district. It is the most industrialized zone in Ghana and one of the largest industrialized zones in Africa

Ghana, Busua, 01 November 2015 Emmanuel 'bebe' Ansah, surf instructor. Susie takes care of the bar at Ahanta Waves Surf School. Having run a foreign-owned surf school in Busua Beach for 6 years, Peter Ansah, a local of Busua decided it was time to start on his own. His vision is to share his unrivalled local knowledge about the best waves in Ghana with people who share his passion for surfing! The name Ahanta Waves comes from the Ahanta Region along the west coast of Ghana. Legend has it that the Ahanta people traveled the sea by holding the tails of whales and dolphins. This is why the kings of Busua have the name Bonsoe (meaning whale). Today however, we rather like to use surfboards instead of hitching a ride with whales. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Nigeria, Lagos, 13 April 2015 Nike Davies-Okundaye aka "'Nike Davies'" is a Nigerian batik and textile designer is also the owner to one of the largest art gallery in Lagos. Davies-Okundaye, was brought up amidst the traditional weaving and dying as practised in her home town of Ogidi, Kogi State, in North Central Nigeria, though she has become known for a modern approach to traditional themes in her colourful batik and paintings. Over the past twenty years she has given workshops on traditional Nigerian textiles to audiences in the United States and Europe. Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR

Azzedine Ala�retouches the last details on the dresses dispayed underneath Matisse's mural paintings, for his retrospective "The Art of Ala� exhibition taking place at the Palais Galliera and in the Modern Art Museum, Paris, France, October 2013.

Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela adresses the audience during the official launch of a new group, The Elders, on the occasion of Mandela's 89th birthday the audience, at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Wednesday July 18, 2007. The Elders is a group of leaders convened by Desmond Tutu, Graca Marchel and Nelson Mandela , founded by SInger Peter Gabriel and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, to tackle some of the world's toughest problems