Emotive photographs have been published that shine a spotlight on the world's indigenous communities, from Brazil to Australia.
A poignant image of girls' dresses draped on crosses near Kamloops in Canada, where the remains of some 215 children were found last year, won the 2022 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday.
The photo was described by one of the judges as "a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonisation, not only in Canada but around the world."
She added it was the kind "that sears itself into your memory and inspires a kind of sensory reaction."
To the right, little girls' dresses in red and ochre hang on crosses next to a highway at Kamloops, a small city in British Columbia, once the venue of a so-called residential school - set up a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada's Indigenous population.
To the left, a rainbow lands near where the mass grave was discovered last year, the first in a series that forced Canadians to confront their painful past.
Bracken's picture for the New York Times comes as Pope Francis on Friday apologised to Indigenous communities for the abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada.
Numerous investigations into the former residential schools are underway across Canada after the discovery of mass unmarked graves, with more than 4,000 children believed to be missing, according to authorities.
Australian documentary lensman Matthew Abbott took the first prize in the Story of the Year category with a series of blazing images, showing how the native Nawarddeken people of the remote Arnhem Land used fire as a land-management tool to combat climate change.
By a practice called "cool burning", Indigenous Australians help prevent wildfires - which has devastated other parts of Australia due to increased heatwaves - thereby reducing the output of climate-heating carbon dioxide.
The work of the global winners is to be exhibited from April 15 in Amsterdam before being shown around the world.
