AFP photographer, Ye Aung Thu, wins 2016 Myanmar National Press Award Best Photo of the Year

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Organized by the Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã) in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and AFP, the exhibition is offering a look at the topic of climate refugees and the migrant crisis.

After being released from the Istanbul police headquarters, award-winning photogapher Bulent Kilic said he had filed a "violent arrest" complaint against the police who pinned him to the ground and pushed their legs into his neck and back during the arrest. AFP management protested against the 'violent arrest' of Kilic "while he was only doing his job as a journalist". The Turkish branch of campaign group Reporters Without Borders also condemned his arrest.

Created in 1942, the Inter American Press Association (in Spanish: Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa, SIP) is a press advocacy group representing major media organizations in North America, South America and the Caribbean. It is made up of more than 1,300 print publications throughout the Western Hemisphere and is based in Miami, Florida.

AFP was present for this General Assembly as a proud partner and sponsor of the IAPA, but also as a media that covers the American continent.

Argentinian photographer Eduardo Soteras has been documenting the situation of children in northern Ethiopia since 2020 and has captured rare moments such as the one on the winning picture: two children finding shelter among books in a destroyed school library of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, smiling despite the chaos that surrounds them.

This is a competition for photographs taken for and used by British media.