Many brokers at Sarai Shahzada, a currency market in downtown Kabul, are part of a money-transfer system known as hawala, which is often used in the refugee-smuggling business.
Anoush and Shahla try to get back to their safehouse after their attempt to reach the coast failed.
Anoush and Shahla, two young refugees from Iran. Together with their father they wait for departure news to try to reach Australia by boat.
Anoush and Shahla, two young refugees from Iran, look over Jakarta in an apartment rented by human smugglers on the 23rd floor of a tower block. Together with their father they wait for departure news to try to reach Australia by boat.
Asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan try to return to their safe houses in Jakarta after a failed attempt to reach a boat at night. The Indonesian police intercepted their convoy near Sukabumi on the way to the southern coast of Java.
Indian Ocean, between Indonesia and Australia. In the early morning hours on the first day of their journey, asylum seekers crowd together under a tarp.
An Afghan asylum seeker covers his face on top of the engine room of a 30-foot long boat that is carrying fifty-seven asylum seekers. All Iranian but one Afghan man from Kunduz Afghanistan, and two Indonesian crew members.
Asylum seekers crowd together under a tarp on the first day of their boat journey. Fifty-seven asylum seekers and two Indonesian crew members make the three-day trip to the Australian territory of Christmas Island aboard a 30-foot vessel.
Morning, the second day of a three day boat journey from Indonesia to Australia. On the deck of a 30-foot long boat that is carrying fifty-seven asylum seekers.
Morning, the second day of a three day boat journey from Indonesia to Australia. A 7-month pregnant woman (middle, rain coat) on the deck of a 30-foot long boat that is carrying fifty-seven asylum seekers.
Dusk on the second day of a three day boat journey from Indonesia to the Australian territory of Christmas Island. An Iranian asylum seeker (with a Qatar Airways sleep mask) holds himself to the Indonesian flag in the stern of a 30-foot long boat.
Members of the Australian Navy distribute life vests and water and food to passengers of a 30-foot long boat. The first Australian Navy ship will leave shortly out of sight again. Later, late in the afternoon another Navy ship will board and escort the boat to the island where on September 9 they will be taken on land.
Asylum seekers en route to the Australian territory of Christmas Island. Fifty-seven asylum seekers, all Iranian but one Afghan man from Kunduz Afghanistan, and two Indonesian crew members on the last day of a three-day trip with destination the Australian territory of Christmas Island.
Late afternoon on their third day at sea aboard a 30-foot vessel, asylum seekers signal for the second time today to the Australian Navy as they near the Australian territory of Christmas Island.