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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 Secretary-General Awards UN Peace Medals to “Bee Gees”

Caption Description Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim today awarded United Nations Peace Medals to a group of popular Australian singers named “Bee Gees” at a ceremony held at the United Nations Headquarters on 16 May. The group is due to produce a record entitled “Music for UNICEF”, the proceeds of which will be donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In aid of UNICEF and as part of the “Year of the Child – 1979” celebrations, the group will also stage a concert in the General Assembly Hall in January 1979, which will be hosted by the prominent British television personality, David Frost. The ninety-minute programme will be televised by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and carried live via satellite to all the continents.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (left) awarding the Peace Medals to the “Bee Gees” today. Looking on (second from left) is Robert Stigwood, producer.

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Production Date 05/16/1978 11:52:12 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

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