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Paddy Dowling

Paddy Dowling is a humanitarian correspondent and photojournalist. His work with UN agencies, global foundations and international NGOs documents stories of displacement through conflict and the worlds most marginalised children.

<p>Riam aged 18 months old, has just returned from the malnutrition centre at Al-Sadaqa hospital in Aden, which is a lifeline to families displaced by the conflict in Yemen</p>

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

<p>Chiring Dhaka Gurung, 22, says: ‘Symrik Cashmere is helping women in these remote regions to be able to support themselves through training in faster weaving techniques which increases output’ </p>

Climate change spells cultural extinction for Nepal’s nomadic herders

<p>Kloster Menzingen’s first new born Ukrainian, Viktoria, aged one, who was born in the safety and tranquility of a Swiss monastery</p>

Swiss ‘millionaire’s playground’ plays host to Ukraine refugees

<p>Aya Besaiso, 24, from Gaza City, has been in full time employment as a consultant ever since graduating</p>

Women of Gaza: How education is seen as a lifeline for many

The displaced: 97 per cent of Palestinian refugees in the camps do not have a social security number

Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps

Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps

The displaced: 97 per cent of Palestinian refugees in the camps do not have a social security number

Despite the atrocities they have seen, the displaced Rohingya show incredible resilience

The refugee camps of Bangladesh where Rohingya people wait in limbo