Philemon Yang,President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, holds up the gavel after it was handed to him by Dennis Francis,President of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, during the closing meeting of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly
Journalism in Afghanistan is becoming more and more difficult due to Taliban laws and restrictions. But the voices of women and others are still being amplified thanks to the media in exile.
Many of the more than 1.2 million Vietnamese immigrants who now call the United States home arrived during the Vietnam War. A new wave of Vietnamese immigration has more recently generated discussion over immigration in the community and has emerged as a major election season talking point.
Dennis Francis, outgoing President of the United Nations seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, holds final press conference.
Jifeng Bookstore reopened in Washington to reach a new audience by bringing literature and debate to the city six years after it was forced to close its doors in Shanghai.
Fish migration on California’s second-largest river has been blocked by dams for more than a century. With the last of four dams removed, Native Americans who depend on the river have achieved a major victory.
Millions of women and girls in Somalia continue to suffer from the harmful tradition of female genital mutilation despite global efforts to stop it.
Samuel Žbogar, Representative to the Security Council of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations Security Council and President of the Security Council for the month of September, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East
Bangladeshi workers launched protests for a third consecutive day outside about 130 garment factories on Tuesday to demand higher wages, marking the first such action in the country’s all-important ready-made garment sector since an interim government took office last month.
Dennis Francis, President of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, chairs the 105th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on general and complete disarmament to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests.