Venezuelan children wait for a free meal at a migrant shelter set up at the Tancredo Neves Gymnasium in Brazil.

Simone Batista, holding her baby Arthur, looks into the camera as tears roll down her cheeks while she recounts being cut from the "Bolsa Familia" government subsidy program for lo...

Where Time Stands Still

This glimpse of a Bihar village in 2008 could well have been from a ­century earlier

A Pot To Scrape

Income is an indicator of survival chances at the poorest end

A demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus marches to the National Congress with a multi-pronged protest banner shaped as a Christmas tree during a protest demanding the approval of a s...

A flood affected woman holding her baby cooks food near a temporary shelter on an embankment in Morigaon district, Assam.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh presenting cooking gas connection to woman living below poverty line (BPL) during the launch of "pradhan mantri ujjwala yojana" in Lucknow.

Sonali Shetty and street children sitting outside a restaurant after they were refused service, in New Delhi.

A homeless boy cleans a chicken's foot to prepare it for dinner collected from chicken shops near a railway track in Gauhati, Assam.

A worker who lives in the street, brushes his teeth as another drinks water as they begin the day in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Endless Wait A widowed woman seen in her home in Lalitpur, Bundelkhand, in Uttar Pradesh

Proof Of Hunger A woman gets food through her ration card in Orissa

Woman with her child at Chandwa village, Jharkhand on Feb 25, 2014.

Streetkids sleep on a bench on a roadside pavement in Old Delhi

A man dressed up goddess Kali waits for alms as a municipal worker fumigates at the Kamakhya temple during the annual Ambubasi festival in Gauhati, Assam.

Two young girls bathe their siblings by a public tap on a hot summer day at Badshahpur, on the outskirts of New Delhi.

A labourer who breaks pieces of coal for baking bricks at a brick-manufacturing unit drinks water on the outskirts of Allahabad

A labourer who breaks pieces of coal for baking bricks at a brick-manufacturing unit displays his palms on the outskirts of Allahabad.

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, an Indian man takes rest on the bed as a woman looks on in New Delhi, India, India's Planning Commission, tasked with updating its...

Dogs sleep near a family of migrant resting on a pavement in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015.