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Participants take photos of Reese Witherspoon, Academy-award winning actor and activist, Danai Gurira, Tony-nominated playwright, actor and activist, and Sade Baderinwa, WABC anchor, during the observance of International Women’s Day at UN headquarters in New York, under the theme "Time Is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives".

Fawziya Koofi (centre), former Deputy Speaker of Parliament in Afghanistan, and Meryl Streep (right), actor, walk to a press conference following the "The Inclusion of Women in the Future of Afghanistan" meeting. The meeting was about the situation of women in Afghanistan after a series of laws were enacted that formalized the systematic erasure of women and girls from public life.

This afternoon Dr. Martin Luther King and a five-man delegation presented a formal note of protest against the war in Vietnam and the involvement of the United States to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs of the United Nations. Seen here as they met with Dr. Bunche are (clockwise): Rev. James Bevel, Mr. David Dellinger, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Mr. Cleveland Robinson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Mrs. Dagmar Wilson and Dr. Bunche.

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Caption Description The UN Ocean Conference is taking place at UN headquarters in New York from 5 to 9 June 2017, coinciding with World Oceans Day (8 June). Co-chaired by Fiji and Sweden, the Conference aims to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Peter Thomson (left), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, speaks at the Avaaz Petition Handover. Avaaz is an initiative to collect one million signatures supporting protection of thirty percent of our ocean. Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, was also part of the event.

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Production Date 06/08/2017 12:44:21 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

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