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Elli Scambor (r), Managing director of the Institute for Masculinity Studies presenting in the panel discussion at the MenEngage expert meeting, Vienna, 24 November 2017.

The United Nations is calling for greater action to address gender-based violence and its prevention in Syria.

“Gender-based violence continues to undermine the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims in Syria,” Panos Moumtzis, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator (RHC) for the Syria Crisis,” said in marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Saturday. “It’s imperative we do more.”

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the interior ministry to investigate and shut the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), a leading human rights group, Human Rights Watch said. The statement appeared linked to the politically motivated prosecution of political opposition leader Kem Sokha and the dissolution of his Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP).

The horrific attack by armed militants on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region during Friday prayers is a grim reminder of the dangers facing Sinai residents on Nov 24, Human Rights Watch said.

Moderator Dragoljub Duško Vuković (c) discusses about protection of children from harmful media content during a workshop, Podgorica, 23 November 2017.

Ukrainian police educators and officers participate in a group exercise during a capacity building event on preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence. The event was organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Kyiv on 22 and 23 November 2017.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian should publicly urge respect for human rights in meetings with China’s new leadership, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 23 in a letter to the foreign minister. Le Drian is visiting China for the first time as foreign minister from November 24 to 27, 2017.

Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism law includes vague and overly broad definitions of acts of terrorism, in some cases punishable by death, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 23.

Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, at his trial judgement at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Russia, Turkey, and Iran should make protecting civilians a priority when they meet in Sochi, Russia on November 22, 2017, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 22. Recent airstrikes by the Russian-Syrian joint military operation that hit a market and police station in an area of Northern Syria included in a recent safe zone agreement shows the risks facing civilians living in so called “safe zones.” The attacks killed at least 75 civilians, including five children.