Viewfinder: After Becoming the Second Head of State to Give Birth While in Office, New Zealand's Prime Minister Brings Her Newborn to the U.N.

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Sep 25, 2018

In June, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, became only the second head of state in modern history to give birth while in office (the first was Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto in 1990). Here, Ardern kisses her daughter, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, as her partner, Clarke Gayford (left), looks on during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on September 24th, 2018, one day before the start of the general debate of the 73rd session of the general assembly at the United Nations in New York. — In June, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, became only the second head of state in modern history to give birth while in office (the first was Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto in 1990). Here, Ardern kisses her daughter, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, as her partner, Clarke Gayford (left), looks on during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on September 24th, 2018, one day before the start of the general debate of the 73rd session of the general assembly at the United Nations in New York.
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Migrants carry the flag of Honduras while on a caravan of immigrants en route to the Mexican border on October 18th, 2018, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

A demonstrator holds an American flag emblazoned with the names of victims who were fatally wounded by police officers during a protest outside the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Building on the first day of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke's murder trial on Monday, September 17th, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. Van Dyke faces murder charges for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in an October of 2014 confrontation.

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Police respond to a shooting on June 28th, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland.

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A man walks in the middle of a flooded waterfront on January 5th, 2018, in Auckland, New Zealand.