2013 News Picture Story
First Place: Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh. The search for the dead ended on May 13 with the death toll of 1,129. Approximately 2,515 injured people were rescued from the building alive. A Bangladeshi woman survivor is lifted out of the rubble by rescuers at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Bangladeshis watch the rescue operations at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi army soldier walks in the rubble at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Bangladeshi relatives of missing workers in a building that collapsed on Wednesday argue with army officials at the search operation in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, April 28, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi rescue worker directs others as they search in the rubble of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 27, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi garment worker who was pulled alive from the rubble is wheeled on a stretcher at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi relative of garment worker Mohammed Abdullah cries as his coffin is nailed shut after collecting his body at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard near a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 27, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Soldiers stand in the rubble Friday, April 26, 2013, two days after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
First Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A Bangladeshi woman weeps as she holds a picture of her and her missing husband as she waits at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. "Collapse"
Kevin Frayer / Associated Press
Second Place: Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Garment workers and their family members, who became homeless after a five-story
building collapsed off its base in the Begunbari area, wait in front of makeshift
accommodation next to the site in Dhaka.
The garment workers in
Bangladesh are meagrely underpaid (about 37-38 USD monthly wage), considered the
lowest wage rate in the world. The five million workers provide speedy outputs for
the there are 5,170 RMG factories in the country, which make clothes for international
brands by employing about 3.5 million workers. The country earns about $21 billion a
year from garment export, accounting for roughly 80 per cent of its annual export
earnings. The industrial workers of the Bangladesh garment sectors endure unsympathetic
working conditions and face discriminations being underpaid than approved basic national
wage rate. The conditions mirror the hostile situations the European industrial workers
had to struggle a century ago. Ninety percent of the garment workers are women and girls
aged above twelve, they are set with the daily tough challenge to execute their work and
fend against sexual harassments and physical abuses. Around 2500 had been killed by
incidents like industrial fires and collapse of factory buildings, including the Rana
Plaza incident, the world’s one of the largest industrial disaster in the span of five
years (2005-2013). Police often act brutally to the peaceful protests of the garment
workers as they often have to take the street to establish their basic needs. "Fashion Victims"
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A woman, Asma, with her child tries to break a barrier after firefighters rescued her sister Jahanara's body at the site where a five-storey building collapsed off its base in the Begunbari area in Dhaka. Jahanara was one of the a low paid garment workers who died in that incident.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Rahela Akhter, a garment worker, tries to resist beating from the police during a protest in Dhaka.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Rahela Akhter, a garment worker, is injured after being beaten by the police during a protest in Dhaka.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
The body of Moushumi, a garment worker, lies on the floor of a hospital after a devastating fire at a garment factory in Savar, outskirts of Dhaka November 24, 2012. A fire swept through Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia industrial belt of Dhaka, on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital killing more than 100 people, the fire brigade said on Sunday, in the country's worst ever factory blaze.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Relatives mourn the death of a garment worker after a fire occurred in a garment factory in Savar November 25, 2012. A fire swept through Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia industrial belt of Dhaka, on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital killing more than 100 people, in the country's worst ever factory blaze.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A worker visits a burnt garment factory after a fire swept through a garment workshop, killing more than 100 people in Bangladesh's worst-ever factory blaze, in Savar.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Tahera Begum, 25, who survived a devastating fire in a garment factory, lies inside her slum room in Savar November 30, 2012. Begum, an operator of Tazreen Fashions garment factory, escaped the fire which killed more than 100 workers on November 24. According to Begum's husband, she became mentally ill and lost her memory after escaping the fire.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Shilpi, who was rescued from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, stands inside the Centre for Rehabilitation of Paralysis (CRP) in Savar June 4, 2013. The rescue worker had to amputate a part of her arm to rescue her. The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka with several illegal floors, ranked among the world's worst industrial accidents killing 1,132 workers.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Mustafizur (L) tries to comfort his wife Rebecca, 20, a garment worker rescued from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, at National Institute of Traumatology Orthipedics and Rehablitation (NITOR) in Dhaka July 3, 2013. The rescue worker had to amputate a part of her arm to rescue her. The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka with several illegal floors, ranked among the world's worst industrial accidents killing 1,132 workers.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
20-year-old seamstress Runi Akhter, a survivor of the rubble of collapsed Rana Plaza Building, stands in front of her slum house with relatives in Savar June 4, 2013. Akhter used to work in Phantom TAC Ltd garment factory in Rana Plaza. She is now unemployed and shares a two-room slum house with eight people, including her parents and two young children.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Second Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Garment workers and leaders shout slogans as they protest against the deaths of their colleagues after a devastating fire in a garment factory in Dhaka.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Third Place: Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Spain's real estate bubble that supercharged the economy for more than a decade burst in 2008 and borrowing costs have risen to near unsustainable levels despite their efforts to cut spending and reform their labor markets. Spaniards are suffering strong austerity measures, including budget cuts and plans to partly privatize some of their country's cherished national health service. The country is trying to avoid following Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus in having to ask for an international financial bailout. A couple smokes a cigarette on their house balcony, in Madrid, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A broker looks at the main display at the Stock Exchange in Madrid, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Spain's Prime Minister warned that the country faced the real danger of being locked out of international markets as investors continued to fret about the future of the euro. At one stage, the difference between the interest rates demanded by investors for Spanish and German 10-year bonds shot past the 500 basis point level, prompting Mariano Rajoy's warning over the country's ability to continue funding itself. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Businessmen walk trough Madrid's financial district, Monday, June 25, 2012. Spain has made a formal request for a loan to help clean up its troubled banking sector however, the country has yet to specify how much of the €100 billion ($125.39 billion) loan package offered by the 17 countries that use the euro it will ask for. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Bankers and businesmen attend the new governor of the Bank of Spain handover ceremony at the Bank of Spain in Madrid, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A woman place coins on her purse as she walks in front of containers full of garbage after garbage collectors were on strike this week trying to avoid cuts on their job positions, in Madrid, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. One in four people in Spain are now unemployed as the economic crisis tightens its grip. The government is under pressure to seek aid to ease debts while the country sinks into its second recession in three years. Spain has raised nearly €5 billion ($6.4 billion) in a successful debt auction that saw strong demand as the country holds off on seeking international help to manage its finances. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Carlos Garcia Bermudez, 39, close friend of Juana Madrid cry as he waits for Juana's eviction in Madrid, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2012. Juana Madrid, 39, from Spain and living in a rental home with her two daughters Isabel and Juani, camped outside the Madrid Housing Institute office or IVIMA for two days. After dealing for months the eviction was finally suspended. Spain approved a two-year suspension of evictions for some needy homeowners unable to pay their mortgages, but activists said the government failed to address the larger issue of how those who give up their homes may still remain indebted, sometimes for the rest of their lives. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
People, some in danger of being evicted from their homes for not being able to keep up with mortgage payments, camp outside a Bankia bank in Madrid, Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Thousands of demonstrators march during a general strike to protest against the government's tough new labor reforms and cutbacks in Madrid, Thursday, March 29, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Demonstrators shout against police after they are blocked near Gran Via street during a general strike in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Spain's General Workers' Union said the nationwide stoppage, the second this year, was being observed by nearly all workers in the automobile, energy, shipbuilding and constructions industries. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
A protestor lies on the groound during clashes with riot police on a general strike in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Spanish police officers carry a member of the Mortgage Victims' Platform (PAH) outside Bankia headquarters after members of the platform occupy the bank during a protest against evictions in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Third Place Winner - 2013 News Picture Story
Juana Madrid cries in the kitchen as she waits for her eviction in Madrid, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2012. Juana Madrid, 39, from Spain and living in a rental home with her two daughters Isabel and Juani, camped outside the Madrid Housing Institute office or IVIMA for two days. After dealing for months the eviction was finally suspended. "A Financial Crisis"
Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
Honorable Mention: David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this April 30, 2012 photo, a badly injured Lesser White Throat hangs by it wings and feet from a gluey tree sap covered "limestick" placed by songbird poachers. The bird was found by activists from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS), in the town of Ayia Napa, Cyprus and taken to the home of a fellow animal rights activist to be nursed back to health, but died soon after. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this March 6, 2012 photo, an Albanian hunter with a shotgun takes a position in a tree inside Lake Skhoder, Albania as he hunts for migrating ducks. Across the Mediterranean, hundreds of millions of migratory birds are killed annually during the treacherous passage for food, profit, and cruel amusement. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo, an Egyptian boy catches a chiffchaff songbird under a huge net draped over a tree at his family's farm near al Daba, Egypt. The birds fly into the open end of the net and can’t find their way out. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Oct. 16, 2013 photo, a songbird poacher’s tray of frozen songbirds sits on the pavement after it was confiscated by Italian forest rangers in the Italy's Brescia region. Illegally hunted birds are secretly served as a delicacy in restaurants and homes. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Oct. 2, 2012 photo, a raptor is tethered to the hood of a truck to serve as a trapper’s spotter in Egypt's Western Desert. When the bird spies a falcon, it looks up, alerting the trapper to release a small bird wearing a snare, trapping the falcon if it comes in for the kill. Falconers pay up to $35,000 for a live falcon. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this March 8, 2012 photo, a dead garganey duck, which was shot and killed by Albanian hunters as it arrived on the coast after migrating from North Africa, floats among duck decoys in the Mediterranean Sea near Velipoje, Albania. Across the Mediterranean, hundreds of millions of migratory birds are killed annually during the treacherous passage for food, profit, and cruel amusement. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Oct. 19, 2013 photo, an Italian forest ranger holds a dead European robin, fatally pinned by its neck and foot in a poacher's trap, while patrolling in the forest of Italy's Brescia region. The practice is illegal in the region but poachers still use the traps, nets, and snares in Italy's northern woods. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Sept. 18, 2012 photo, a Bedouin hunter in the Western Desert shows off a dead Golden Oriole songbird as he returns with the day's kill to a hunting camp in Egypt's Western Desert. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Sept 30, 2012 photo, an Egyptian man collects European quail as they arrive after migrating across the Mediterranean Sea from Europe and are caught in his net stretched along the beach near Baltim, Egypt. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this May 4, 2012 photo, anti-songbird poaching activists from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) sneak into a orchard where they found, and removed, dozens of freshly placed "limesticks", used to capture songbirds, in a citrus orchard in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Oct. 8, 2012 photo, an animal rights activist from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) sucks the gluey tree sap from the wings of a female black cap bird that he rescued from a bird-poacher 's limestick trap in a orchard in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2013 News Picture Story
In this Oct. 20, 2013 photo, a robin which was confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, looks out from a cage before it was released by Italian anti-poaching squad members in Brescia, Italy. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)
David Guttenfelder / Associated Press