2024 selection
Among a collection of photographs carefully chosen by the AFP (Agence France-Presse), young people vote for the picture that, in their opinion, comes closest to representing our world today. This activity takes place at school, or in their youth organization at the beginning of the school year (September). Thanks to an online platform, secondary school students and young people who participate in the activities of youth organizations from all over the world can now vote online, giving this project a true perspective!
AFP 1 | Christian MONTERROSA
El Paso, Texas (USA), April 2, 2024
Sulan, a migrant woman from Venezuela, is comforted by her daughter as she cries while retelling her journey to reach El Paso, Texas on April 2, 2024. An appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Senate Bill 4 that would allow state law enforcement officials to detain and arrest undocumented immigrants suspected of illegally crossing into the United States.
AFP 2 | Guillem SARTORIO
Kigali (Rwanda), April 7, 2024
Dancers perform during the commemorations of the 30th Anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in Kigali on April 7, 2024, marking the day of the first killings in what was to become the last genocide of the 20th century, killing 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.
AFP 3 | Angelos TZORTZINIS
Athens (Greece), April 23, 2024
A man takes a photograph of the city of Athens from Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust covering the capital and other Greek cities on April 23, 2024, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018.
AFP 4 | Sameer Al-DOUMY
Gravelines (France), April 26, 2024
A Sudanese migrant leaves a smuggler's boat which was punctured by French police officers to prevent migrants from embarking in an attempt to cross the English Channel on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024.
AFP 5 | Anselmo CUNHA
Porto Alegre (Brazil), May 20, 2024
An aerial view shows an aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho International Airport in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 20, 2024. More than 600,000 people have been displaced by the heavy rain, flooding and mudslides that have ravaged the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
AFP 12 | Alexis HUGUET
Lake Kivu, near Minova (Democratic Republic of Congo), March 10, 2024
A boy watches as displaced people and local residents make their way to Goma in a wooden boat they built themselves on Lake Kivu, near Minova, in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on 10 March 2024. In early February, M23 rebels, backed by the Rwandan army, took control of the road linking Goma, capital of North Kivu, to Minova and Bukavu, causing the Congolese army to flee to Minova as well as tens of thousands of civilians.
AFP 14 | Oren ZIV
Gevim Kibbutz (Israel), October 7, 2023
An Israeli soldier takes cover behind a car as he looks toward bodies on a main road near the Gevim Kibbutz, close to the border with Gaza on October 7, 2023. The war began on October 7 with Hamas’ unprecedented attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
AFP 16 | Menahem KAHANA
Re’im (Israel), April 2, 2024
Relatives of victims of the October 7 attacks carried out by Palestinian militants visit an installation bearing the photos of their loved ones who were killed or kidnapped during the attack, at the site of the Nova festival in Re'im in southern Israel on April 2, 2024.