United Nations, World Events & Portraits

United Nations and World Events

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama during a ceremonial toast at the United Nations.

Portraits and Personalities

Yaqueline, a 4-year-old indigenous Wayuu girl, sits on the stoop of her home with her Aunt Edicta, behind her, in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Humanitarian Work

Maternal and Child Health

An indigenous Mayan woman holds her wide-eyed infant daughter in a health center in rural Guatemala.

Education activist Malala Yousafzai, wearing a yellow dress and head covering, at the UN.

Children play outside their home as a dog walks nearby, in the community of Trenchtown in Kingston, Jamaica.

Adolescent Participation

Brazil Indigenous Advocate Urapinã Pataxó

Haiti – After the Earthquake

A boy leans against his makeshift home after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Child Protection

A girl holds a doll, Guatemala.