Photographs: Oliver Belarga, The Philippins
Five Indians have won top prizes in various categories of an international photography contest organised by the United Nations to spotlight the Millennium Development Goals.
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Photographs: Larry Louie, Canada
Winners were announced on Wednesday ahead of the MDG summit next week in which world leaders would participate before the opening session of the UN General Assembly.
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Photographs: Prakash Hatvalne
Prakash Hatvalne from Bhopal was awarded the first prize under the 'education' goal for his photograph showing a young boy climbing up the stairs of his school in Bhopal.
"The light was very bright," Hatvalne said, recalling waiting outside a shop on a hot summer day when he noticed the boy climbing the stairs at a nearby school with his school bag strapped to his back.
"The boy dressed in white on the old black steps really attracted me as a photographer and I started clicking," he added.
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Photographs: Piyal Adhikary
Piyal Adhikary, also from India, won the award for her photograph called 'Vaccination Mission' showing Radha Das, a social health activist, giving Hepatitis B vaccine to a child at a rural health centre. The image was chosen for depicting the goal of reducing child mortality.
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Photographs: Rudolf Kozsak, Hungary
The eight MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases and ensuring environmental sustainability.
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Photographs: Sai Kham Lynn, Mynmar
The winning snaps were selected under the different goals and divided between professional and amateur photographers. The winning photographs were picked from 3,000 photos submitted by more than 1,400 contestants.
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Photographs: Partha Pratim Saha
Partha Patim Saha's picture, which showed children taking a break from class at their newly-established primary school in north-eastern India, won the amateur photographer's prize under the 'Education' goal.
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Photographs: Joydeep Mukherjee
Joydeep Mukerjee won for a photograph called 'Equal Work', showing a woman joining her two male co-workers at a brick kiln in West Bengal. The image was also selected in the amateur category of the goal to achieve 'Gender equality and women's empowerment'.
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Photographs: Joydeep Mukherjee
Mukherjee, also won for his work called 'Preventing Malaria', in which a young girl is seen reading in her malaria net in West Bengal.
"I believe that an artist's work must be good consistently to be considered art," he said.
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Photographs: Saikat Mukherjee
Saikat Mukherjee's work, 'Hand in hand' -- showing fishermen from West Bengal and Orissa working together to bring their catch -- also won the award in the amateur category for showing 'global partnerships to promote development'.
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Photographs: Thanh Hai, Vietnam
The award ceremony on Wednesday evening was presided over by UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro and Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme.
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Photographs: Allan Gichigi, Kenya
A nurse listens to the heartbeat of a foetus at a local dispensary in western Kenya.
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Photographs: Agha Rizwan Ali, Pakistan
A group of university students in Lahore, Pakistan, work together on a circuit board in their electrical engineering class
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Photographs: Victor Diaz Kintanar, The Philippines
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Photographs: Marielle van Uitert, The Netherlands
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Photographs: Victor Diaz Kintanar, The Philippins
Residents of Cebu City in the Philippines receive free condoms from government health workers.
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Photographs: Pablo La Rosa, Uruguay
Camila Gonzalez studies at home on a computer she received through Uruguay's 'One Laptop per Child' programme.
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Photographs: Fatima Elkadi, Norway
Two older girls teach children in Nepal about the dangers of child marriage. This meeting took place one day before a planned child marriage in the neighbourhood.
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Photographs: Tran Vinh Nghia, Vietnam
Fishermen bring in the daily catch in south-eastern Vietnam.
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Photographs: Quoc Nguyen, Vietnam
A micro-loan allowed Lien from Vietnam to build a brick oven, start a business and send her children to school.
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Photographs: Jared Katz, United States
A young girl from Myanmar attends school at a refugee camp in eastern Bangladesh.
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Photographs: Maria Cierna, Slovak Republic
A mother and child recover from malaria in a hospital in Burundi. The government provides free health care for pregnant women and children under five.
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