Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary.

Madrid, Spain, 23 February 1981. Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina and members of the Guardia Civil and the military police hold the Spanish parliament hostage.

Beirut, Lebanon, 18 September 1982. Aftermath of massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

Koyunoren, Eastern Turkey, 30 October 1983. Kezban Özer finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake.

Bhopal, India, December 1984. Child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.

Armero, Colombia, 16 November 1985. Twelve-year-old Omayra Sanchez trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died.

San Francisco, USA, September 1986. Ken Meeks' skin is marked with lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma.

Kuro, South Korea, 18 December 1987. A mother pleads with the riot police after her son was arrested at a demonstration accusing the government of fraud in the presidential election.

Leninakan, USSR, December 1988. Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, victim of the Armenian earthquake.

Beijing, China, 4 June 1989. Demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during Tiananmen Square demonstrations for democratic reform.