In Guizhou, China, this little boy's parents are busy harvesting as his 90-year-old grandmother takes a quick break to enjoy a tender moment with him.
This photo was taken at a cemetery in Manila, the Philippines, where a community of homeless people live, including this child who has found a balloon to play with among the unclaimed bones and bodies.
Li was admitted to the Changchun weight loss centre last year where he undergoes traditional Chinese treatments including fire therapy, pictured, which involves burning a mixture of ingredients on a cloth over his stomach.
A small child in Togo, West Africa, with fresh wounds which will turn into scars, typical of the Soma tribe.
In Benin, West Africa, a two-year-old member of the Betamarribe tribe endures a painful scarification ceremony in keeping with his ancient heritage.
In Mumbai, India, a little girl undergoes a Navjote, pictured, a ceremony similar to baptism which welcomes her into the Zoroastrian religion one of the oldest on Earth.
It means she'll never be allowed to marry outside of it.
Twin sisters Liu Bingqing and Liu Yujie go through rigorous gymnastics training at a Chinese sports school in Jining, Shandong province, where they have studied and trained since they were infants.
When photographer Mohamed Roushdy El dor took this portrait in Cairo, Egypt, he asked the sad boy to smile but he said he couldn't.
Only God knows why.
Photographer Kamila Staniszewska captured her six-year-old daughter break into tears while doing her homework in Poland.
A child plays in Kaifeng, China, by the warehouse of a man who kills dogs to sell.
Photographer Germano Miele writes of this image, which he took in the small village in Benin:
'It's very common, when you leave the big cities to go discovering little villages, to be received like an old friend coming back home with amazing and unforgettable smiles and calling me "Yovo" (white man in Fon, the local language).
This is the pure Africa I really love'
In a remote village of India's West Bengal, children gather as this Sannyasi (religious beggar) parades a skull as part of a Gajan Festival, in hopes for rain and a better harvest in the coming year.
Photographer Jian Seng Soh, who captured this image in Kyoto, Japan,wrote of it:
'Before I got off the bus at the next station, I gave my seat to this young elementary student with heavy bags and she immediately fell asleep'.
Syrian refugee children shelter under plastic to protect themselves from the rain during transportation from a Turkish camp.
In the poverty-stricken region of Gyumri, Armenia, mum Lusine sleeps with her five children in the only room they have.
During the Soviet era, these huge buildings on the outskirts of the city accommodated around 60 families each.
Today there are just four families living here, among decaying walls and corridors.
Pier Mane captured this indigenous tribe of the Solomon islands.
He said of the image:
'It seems kids learn to paddle before they walk'.
At a school in rural southwest Uganda, children in uniforms pray earnestly in the early morning before classes commence.
A tired young student poses at a school near Sidone in Lebanon, where around a million Syrian refugees are supported by international organizations.
Caught in the crossfire, Iraqi civilians displaced by fighting in the village of Shora, just south of Mosul, reach an Iraqi army checkpoint on the northern outskirts of Qayyarah.
A young boy pictured clutching two guns in the Honduran city of Rivera Hernandez, where according to the photographer, five warring gangs result in three dead bodies a day.
In the jungle of Sumatra Barat, Indonesia, children share a joke with an elder of the Mentawai Tribe on Mentawai Island.
Taha Sirhan (right), 11, carries the Iraqi flag through burned out oil fields in the city of Qayyarah south east of Mosul in Iraq.
His father was killed by ISIS during their occupation because he was working for the Iraqi police.
Children of the Melanesian of Solomon Islands
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