A makeshift memorial at the All Black Lives Matter Solidarity March on June 14, in Los Angeles. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images hide caption
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Teenage leaders in the global group Girl Up met for their annual conference via Zoom. NPR interviewed 11 of the attendees. Top row, from left: Salomé Beyer, Rebecca Fairweather, Alliyah Logan and Bethel Kyeza. Middle row, from left: Riya Goel, Nora DiMartino, Aya Alagha and Mofi Onanuga. Bottom row, from left: Vanessa Louis-Jean, Hayat Muse and Rym Badran. Zoom screen grab by NPR hide caption
Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Loujain Alhathloul appeared in court with several other women for the first time since her arrest and detention in May 2018. Marieke Wijntjes via Reuters hide caption
Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam, center, reacts as he is released from Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj, near Dhaka on Tuesday. Suman Paul/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Maryangel Garcia Ramos, 32, is a disability activist from Mexico. Antonio Escobar hide caption
"Keep it in the ground" activists protesting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline on February 17, 2018 near Belle Rose, Louisiana. Travis Lux/WWNO hide caption
Greenpeace protesters unfold a banner reading "Resist" from atop a construction crane on Wednesday behind the White House. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Wounded 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he was injured during airstrikes targeting Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
They're members of the global-minded teens club: (left to right) Toluwanimi Sola-Adeyemi of Lagos, Chloe McGill of Seattle and Emine Arcasoy of Chapel Hill. Courtesy of Tolu Sola-Adeyemi, Chloe McGill and Emine Arcasoy. hide caption