A pro-democracy protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a yellow umbrella and a banner in the part of Hong Kong's financial central district protesters are occupying November 2, 2014. The former British colony of Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997, has witnessed a month of protests calling on the Beijing-backed government to keep its promise of introducing universal suffrage. The protests have for the most part been peaceful, with occasional clashes between the student-led protesters and Beijing supporters seeking to move them from the streets. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
Afghan women learn how to make a doll at a workshop sponsored by a Malaysian NGO called Mercy that seeks to help local females to empower themselves on April 15, 2010 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
A Burmese worker sets up Christmas lights inside a woman's clothing store inside a shopping mall December 6, 2011 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A girl jumps from a tomb, a day before the nationwide cemetery closure during All Saints' Day amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a flooded cemetery in Masantol, Pampanga, Philippines, October 28, 2021. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)
Animal rights activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in dinosaur costumes hold placards urging people to go vegan, ahead of Earth Day celebration, in Manila, Philippines, April 21, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)
A Filipino activist builds an effigy depicting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ahead of Marcos' first State of the Nation Address, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on July 24, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)
Students attend the first day of in-person classes, at a flooded school due to high tide, in Macabebe, Pampanga province, Philippines on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)