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The fingers of emaciated one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in Tahoua, Niger, August 1, 2005. Hardly any of the pledges announced at the G8 summit have yet translated i

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 06
12.09.–28.10.2006

For the fifth time in succession – and this year for the first time extended to six weeks – the annual touring show of the best press photographs worldwide makes a stop in WestLicht. The award-winning photographs of the competition—first held by the Netherlands World Press Photo Foundation in 1955—is seen every year in 40 countries and by 2 million people. The over-all winner of this year’s contest is the Canadian photographer Finbarr O’Reilly, Kanada, Reuters, with his picture of a mother and her starving child taken in an emergency clinic in Niger.