Photo:UNESCO earlier this year added to its World Heritage List the Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site (Brazil), located in central Rio de Janeiro and encompassing the entirety of Jornal do Comércio Square, as an acknowledgement of its “outstanding universal value.”
Politics
Photo:UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) emergency teams respond to thousands of civilians fleeing Tal Afar since the launch of the military campaign to retake the city from ISIL on 20 August.
Photo:A 71-year-old Salvadorian refugee living in Mexico shows a picture of her daughter, who was murdered by a gang at the age of 27, before the family fled.
Photo:Iraqi refugee children who fled from Tal Afar and found shelter in schools, mosques and unfinished buildings in the area of Sinjar, in Ninawa governorate.
Photo:A girl walks past a pile of firewood in Mahama refugee camp, Eastern Province, Rwanda, which is hosting thousands of refugees from Burundi.
Photo:Palestinians sit outside their houses to escape from the heat during a power cut in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City.
Photo:Police officers in New Delhi, India in January 2016. Police in India are often accused of protecting colleagues from accountability for abuses.
August 20, 2017
Photo:Boxes containing medication are unloaded from a helicopter. In hard to reach areas of Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, helicopters play a pivotal role in getting assistance to internally displaced persons and returnees.
Photo:Student leaders Nathan Law and Joshua Wong walk into the high court in Hong Kong, August 17, 2017.
August 18, 2017
Photo:Staff stand together at United Nations Headquarters in New York to draw attention that civilians are #NotATarget.