Simon Townsley

Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations

In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children

Dispatch: Children reduced to skin and bones in war-torn Sudan’s forgotten famine

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Rubaya coltan mines before fighting displaced half a million people

Demand for South Africa’s abalone is so high it underpins an international smuggling trade estimated to be worth nearly £100m each year

The destruction of Gaza’s health facilities has been well documented – but elsewhere patients face a quieter, more insidious deprivation

They survived a chemical weapons massacre, but Halabja’s victims still suffer its poisonous legacy

Simon Townsley reveals the stories behind some of his most impactful photographs from the conflict

Asanka Pushpakumara is not just lucky to be alive.

They are an odd couple and perhaps not one you would expect to be fighting HIV and Aids together in Africa – an Irish nun and a jet-setting pharmaceuticals executive.