Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to strike from school every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
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Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, speaks to the media about the main findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 17 September 2019. Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
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Students on stage lead young protesters in chants during a Global Strike 4 Climate rally at Civic Square in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 20 September 2019. It is estimated that more than 1,000 people were in attendance, among them many students who had left school to join the worldwide day of protest. The Global Strike 4 Climate is being held only days ahead of the scheduled United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA-EFE
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Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to strike from school every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
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Students on stage lead young protesters in chants during a Global Strike 4 Climate rally at Civic Square in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 20 September 2019. It is estimated that more than 1,000 people were in attendance, among them many students who had left school to join the worldwide day of protest. The Global Strike 4 Climate is being held only days ahead of the scheduled United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA-EFE
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Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to strike from school every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
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