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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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Headline Founder of Institute on Gender in Media Holds Press Conference

Caption Description Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actress and founder of non-profit organization Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, speaks to journalists following the opening of the 2010 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) High-Level Segment. Ms. Davis briefed on issues of gender disparity, emphasizing the portrayal of women in the media and its effect on young girls.

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Production Date 06/22/2010 12:42:07 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

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