FILE PHOTO: "Little Amal", a 3.5 metre tall puppet of a young Syrian refugee girl, arrives at the Castlefield Bowl, as part of its 8,000 km tour across Europe from Turkey to Britain to raise awareness for the plight of young refugees, in Manchester, Britain, November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Molly Darlington/
GLASGOW (Reuters) - After walking thousands of miles across Europe, a giant puppet named Little Amal reached the Glasgow COP26 talks on Tuesday to raise awareness of the plight of refugee children on the front line of climate change.
On Gender Day, the 3.5 metre (11 feet) tall Amal - a figure representing a young Syrian girl refugee - opened the plenary session of the talks, together with Samoan climate activist Brianna Fruean.
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