rn Iraq. 1991. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos

ty. Guatemala. 1987. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos

010 and 2014, 101 campaigners were killed in Honduras, a higher death toll relative to population than anywhere else in the world. Cannon Ball, North Dakota. USA. September, 2016. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos

, since 1977, they assemble before the governemental palace to claim their "missing" relatives.This association of mothers had only twelve members in 1977. Their perserverance and courage has successfully transmitted their message twenty-some years later to a activist group of the children of the missing called "Hijos". July 1999. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos

n 1977. Their perserverance and courage has successfully transmitted their message twenty-some years later to a activist group of the children of the missing called "Hijos". Buenos Aires. July, 1999. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos

a. 1988. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos

t is unfathomable and unrelenting...to stand in a circle and on cue raise hands cupping portraits of Amadou Diallo. They somberly intone the counting of the 41 bullets fired at him that have again reignited flames of Unquenchable pain, anguish and outrage emanate with a palpable force of beauty, dignity and power...and unpardonable pain and suffering. Some Women In Mourning were joined by their husbands in the protest against police brutality. The four white policemen who fired 41 bullets at the young African immigrant; 19 hit their mark. Prosecutors brought six alternative charges against each of the cops; none of them stuck- neither counts of murder, nor the two manslaughter; not homicide, not reckless endangerment. All officers were acquitted. No New York City police officer has ever been convicted of murder for actions in the line of duty. A grand jury charged a New York officer with murder only once before, in 1992, but the charges were reduced and the officer was acquitted. New demands for social justice, law enforcement reforms and a federal inquiry echoed from pulpits and city streets after the acquittal verdict. About 300 people gathered near the United Nations for a prayer vigil led by the Rev. Al Sharpton seeking to bring the case to the attention of the international community. Some in the crowd wore signs reading: "Go ahead and shoot. I'm black so it must be justified." Several women, dressed in black, stood silently near a phalanx of police officers. In what was billed as a day of prayer, political leaders and activists joined Sharpton in criticizing the verdicts as inappropriate for a case in which police fired 41 bullets, only to discover afterward that he was unarmed. Thousands of protesters descended on Midtown Manhattan, Saturday. New York City. USA. 2000. © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos