Nelson Mandela

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR East DR Congo, conflict Espoir, 18 years My parents are divorced and my mom has beaten me often. One day my brother was killed by the FDLR (Hutu rebels) and I decided to take revenge. So in 2008 I joined the Raia Mutomboki. I was a very good fighter and was promoted to the rank of colonel, I was around 13 years old at that time. But I became disappointed because we were also fighting against the population. After six years I decided to flee.

Girl23 in an alley in Vancouver, on the right one of her graffiti's. Larissa Healey (40) alias Girl23 belongs to the Peguis band (tribe) was born in Winnipeg. At a young age she was adopted and abused by her adopted mother. She was always called girl by her adopted mother and at 23 years old she tried to commit suicide, since then she calls herself girl23. 'I was always making drawings and at 12 years old I started to become active in hiphop and breakdance. At 20 years old I made my first graffiti, I do it because it doesn't last? I always used aboriginal shapes in my graffiti.' She had recently a huge graffiti mural inside the Vancouver Art Gallery. In Canada there are currently 630 recognized First Nations governments, the total population is about 700,000 of which half lives in British Colombia and Ontario. life in the reserves is difficult where unemployment is high, specially since the 2008 crisis. Many young First Nations move to Vancouver in the hope for a better life. They try to maintain their culture and identity in the big city and many make a livings as artists.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR Modern Day slavery, sugarcane in the Dominican Republic A Haitian cane cutter at work in a field of sugarcane belonging to 'Consorcio Azucarero Central' close to Batey 5 in the district of Vicente Noble is being burned so it can be harvested. The cane cutters are all Haitians and work during the harvest season, 12 hours a day, six days a week. The cutters live at the so called 'complexo' which was build in 2011 a fenced of area where a number of dorms have been build housing 420 workers. When the season is over they have to leave.

Juan is from Barranquilla, he lived on a farm with his brother. 'One day armed man, they were para-militaries came and attacked the farm. My brother was killed and I fled to Bogota. I live here alone in Altos de Florida.' Soacha, is a suburb of Bogota and has the high-test number of refugees in the whole country. On the hill is Altos de Florida, where many new arrivals live, about 5000 inhabitants of which 40-60% are refugees. People don't pay rent, but there is no police so crime is on the rise. The community has build roads and installed power and is well organized.

Houston, Texas, United States - January, 2009. America's new diaspora Lesly Berzat (39) I was living in Gentilly but a fire destroyed the house so we moved to my mother on the 13th of August 2005, who lived in the Calio housing project. We stayed for the storm we had 13 feet of water but we stayed on the third floor. Nobody came to rescue us so we walked to the Superdome the Monday night after the storm. Since that we all have skin diseases, I think its because of the water we walked through. On Tuesday buses picked us up, some of us were brought to the Astrodome in Houston, but my great grandmother for example is still in Arkansas. Early October 2005 we got this apartment at ‘Royal Oaks’. They wanna make canal Street into Las Vegas, but God will tear it down, because it is wrong. I am angry with my city, they did us dirty, God will finish that city. I can’t find work here; I worked last year four months in New Orleans. My mother, Joyce, has diabetes; I have to take care of her. I didn’t receive anything from FEMA.

Mr Schelvis is one of the few dutch survivours of camp Sobibor and the one who recognized Demanjuk, whose trial is starting the day after tomorrow in Munich.

USA, New York, New York City, 24 May 2016 Waste being collected in the streets of Manhattan. Some of the bags way 50 kg, which is mainly food waste. Collection is often done by private contractors. Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

USA, Alaska, Tikigaq (Point Hope), May 2018 Steve Ommittuk is a whale hunter in Point Hope. The Inuit community of Point Hope is allowed to catch 10 bowheads per year. Nowadays due to the early disappearance of the sea ice its much harder for the community to catch whales and it threatens their livelihood. Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR for Carmignac Fondation

USA, New York, New York City, 23 May 2016 Portrait of a barge transport worker. Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

Cameron Milroy (25) was born in Kotzebue on the west coast of Alaska. His mother is native, his father Scottish - Irish. He grew up with his father in Oregon. When Cameron was 20 years he came back to Alaska and got a job with Nanan (a native oil company) in Deadhorse. 'I started as a cleaner, but now I am a 'level 1' truck driver. I enjoy the climate here.' Deadhorse is the end of the Panamerican highway at 70°N 148°W on the coast of the Arctic ocean. Deadhorse never really existed until oil was found in Prudhoe Bay and the Trans-Alaska pipeline system was build. The residents of Deadhorse are almost all migrant workers from the US and Latin America who work in the oil. The population is around 5000. The Trans-Alaska pipeline was constructed between 1974 and 1977 after the 1973 oil crisis. Currently the pipeline transports around 700,000 barrels a day. The oilfields are being leased and are mostly based on native land, nevertheless the companies deny access to any outsiders.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR The fishermen of the Wadden Raymond Ruijg, garnalenvisser 'In de schoolvakanties voer ik altijd al mee met garnalenvissers, mijn vader was postbode hier op Terschelling. Sinds mijn 18e droomde ik al van een eigen schip. Ik vaar zondagnacht uit tot dinsdagochtend en van dinsdagavond tot donderdagochtend samen met mijn broer Dennis. Als ik twee ton vang ben ik blij, ooit heb ik een keer 12 ton in een week gevangen. Of de garnalenvisserij nog bestaat in de toekomst weet ik niet, maar ik wil niks anders.'

William Galindo (39) has been convicted for 38 years in prison. He is a member of the '18' gang. When he was nine years old his mother took him to Houston, USA. He saw the gangs operating there and thought they were cool. In 1998 he was arrested for possession of cocaine and was deported upon release. In El Salvador he became an important gang member. He is now in the prison of Quezaltepeque, where he shares a cell with 56 others. The prison of Quezaltepeque was originally build for 400 prisoners. Nowadays 1200 live there. They are all gang members from 'Mara Salavatrucha' and '18'. Some cells are shared by 400 inmates. El Salvador is often mentioned as the most Americanized country in the Americas. In fact, one third of its population lives in the USA. El Salvador has also the highest number of murders per capita in the world. Violence stems from the brutal civil war and the gangs, whiche were started in the US. In fact, when peace accords were signed in 1992 the US deported many Salvadorians back to El Salvador: this was the start of the gangs 'Mara Salvatrucha' and '18'. Salvador's economy is heavily dependant on remesas: money that Salvadorians in the US send to their families in El Salvador.

Specialist Michael malone (US army) at patrolbase 6, north of Mosul. 50,000 US troops still remain in Iraq, which are suppose to leave by the end of 2011. They are there to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces and to conduct joint operations an patrols with them.

Carice van Houten is a Dutch stage and film actress.

Prem Radhakishun, radio/ TV maker,

Jaap van Zweden, director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and world famous violin player.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - July, 2007. America's new diaspora Geneva Halley sees the remains of her house in the lower ninth ward for the first time.