In The Hague, an evening of film, visual storytelling, and dialogue centers the leadership and rights of Afghan women and girls. Featuring Women Between Peace and War: Afghanistan, an excerpt from Roya Sadat’s The Sharp Edge of Peace, and a multidisciplinary conversation on justice, accountability, and the international response to Afghanistan.

What we throw away does not disappear. Someone sorts it, carries it, lives beside it, or tries to recover value from it. Beginning with photographs by Emerging Lens Fellows Oyewole Lawal and Edwin Ndeke, WHO CLEANS UP AFTER US? asks who profits from mass consumption—and who pays for what the rest of us discard.

At Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, AWP brings Women Between Peace and War: Afghanistan to the 12th Annual Texas Symposium on Women, Peace, and Security, centering Afghan women’s experiences and leadership while connecting visual storytelling with urgent conversations about justice, security, and human rights.

In Paris, celebrate Emerging Lens Fellow Oyewole Lawal as his documentary photography receives international recognition at the 2026 ZEKE Awards. Meet Lawal during the Résilience exhibition and see how locally rooted storytelling from Nigeria is entering global conversations about environmental justice and systemic change.