In Pictures | Walls That Divide Us: International Borders

In Pictures | The walls that divide nations and people across the world.

A barbed wire fence decorated with ribbons bearing messages wishing the unification of the two Koreas is pictured near the demilitarised zone which separates North and South Korea in Paju October 31, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

Photographers have documented the modern barriers around the world that separate communities and countries. From the barbed wire fence dividing the two Koreas, the fence around the Spanish enclave of Melilla, to the sectarian Peace Wall in Belfast, the Israel-Gaza barrier and the border separating Mexico from the United States these pictures show the most disputed, dangerous and controversial walls that divide our world.

The Line of Control that separates India and Pakistan occupied Kashmir. (Photo: Reuters)

The Peace Wall that divides Catholic and Protestant communities in Belfast. (Photo: Reuters)

Sections of the United Nations buffer zone that runs through Cyprus separating the ethnic Greek and Turkish communities. (Photo: Reuters)

The controversial Israeli barrier running through the West Bank. (Photo: Reuters)

The border fence which separates Morocco from Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla. (Photo: Reuters)

The demilitarised zone that separates North and South Korea in Paju. (Photo: Reuters)

The border fence separating the United States and Mexico, outside Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Reuters)