Afghanistan is without a doubt one of the worst places in the world for a child to be born into. And in the mountainous province of Badakhshan, in the remote northeast of the country, the situation is particularly bleak: on average, for every one thousand live births, 252 of the children there will die before they reach the age of five, giving the region the dubious honour of having the highest infant mortality rate on the planet. The pictures are shown on a exhibition at the University of Mannheim in April and Mai 2011
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