Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions poses after a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions poses after a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the vaccination center set up at the Cabanas Institute in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on March 21, 2021. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz / AFP) (Photo by ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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