High oil prices

UN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT MAP 2007

UN Human Development Report 2007 map: the poorest countries are in red, to brown.

CREDIT – United Nations, Creative Commons

POVERTY LESOTHO HIGH OIL PRICE

A woman in Lesotho uses a traditional fire to cook here evening meal. In recent times locals from the Southern African country have been using paraffin to cook with but the petroleum product has become too expensive for many of the country’s poor

CREDIT – IRIN news agency

DROUGHT MAIZE LESOTHO HIGH OIL PRICE

A drought stricken field in Lesotho’s lowlands that would normally be used to grow staple foods like maize. Because of the drought maize has to be imported from South Africa by road. Rising oil prices means the cost of importing the food has risen dramatically.

CREDIT – Bill Corcoran

MORE POVERTY LESOTHO HIGH OIL PRICE

Lesotho citizens such as Mamaribe Hata-Hata, 17, and her father Ramarumo Hata-Hata, who is HIV positive, live in dire poverty in Lesotho. Mamaaribe also lost her mother to the illness and the rising cost of oil is putting further pressure on the small family’s ability to feed itself and travel to get the anti-retroviral drugs her father needs to survive.

CREDIT – IRIN news agency

BHUTAN PETROL STATION HIGH OIL PRICE

Bhutanese civil servant Karma Dorji, 31, (in traditional attire) fuels up at one of the Bharat Petroleum fueling stations in Thimphu.

CREDIT – Kencho Wangdi

TAXI DRIVER BHUTAN PETROL STATION HIGH OIL PRICE

Taxi driver Pemba Tshering 38, (in traditional attire) peers up at the fuel meter station in Thimphu, Bhutan’s capital.

CREDIT – Kencho Wangdi

BHUTAN WOMAN PETROL STATION HIGH OIL PRICE

A Bhutanese lady (in traditional attire) fueling up at the Thimphu gas station.

CREDIT – Kencho Wangdi