“Kids of Sapa”. Four little beautiful Hmong girls from Lao Chai Village, near Sapa, Vietnam. (Photo and caption by Felipe Hanower/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)
A girl performs martial arts during a function to mark International Women's Day at a school in Hyderabad, India, on March 7, 2014. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press)
An Afghan refugee girl stands near her parents' makeshift shelter in a slum on the outskirts of Lahore January 12, 2015. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
A girl walks past a destroyed mosque in the town of Mararaba, after the Nigerian military recaptured it from Boko Haram, in Adamawa state May 10, 2015. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
A girl bathes to cool off herself with water that is leaking from a broken pipe valve on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, May 18, 2015. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
A girl plays on a pile of discarded flowers outside a market, the day after the Diwali celebrations in Mumbai, India October 31, 2016. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)
A street vendor wearing a Santa Claus costume sits next to a girl at the boulevard of Sabana Grande in Caracas, Venezuela December 19, 2016. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)
Girls watch a procession during the “Fiesta de las Palancas” celebration to ask for blessings and abundance during the new year in Panchimalco, El Salvador, January 5, 2017. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)