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In Diffa, Niger, a family uprooted from Malam Fatouri, Nigeria, by Boko Haram shelter at a site for displaced civilians on 18 August 2016.

Boy prisoners in the yard of the Women and Children's Reformatory in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many boys were detained on suspicion of links to the Islamic State

Ming-Tang Chen, Taiwan’s Administrative Deputy Minister of Justice, gives a speech on behalf of the government.

A U.S. federal judge on the night of January 28 granted the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) request for a nationwide temporary injunction that will block the deportation of all people stranded in U.S. airports under President Trump’s new Muslim ban. The ACLU and other legal organizations filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals who were subject to the ban. The lead plaintiffs have been detained by the U.S. government and threatened with deportation even though they have valid visas to enter the United States.

Brazilian authorities should ensure a prompt, thorough, and independent investigation into the killing of a military police officer in the northern state of Pará on January 20, 2017 and a subsequent wave of possibly retaliatory killings, Human Rights Watch said on 27 January.

Families displaced by ongoing fighting seek shelter in the UN Protection of Civilians site in Wau, South Sudan.

United States President Donald Trump has announced several policies that will cause tremendous harm to refugees and do little to address terrorism and other national security threats, Human Rights Watch said on January 27.

Secretary-General António Guterres (fifth right) poses for a group photo with participants of the UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Asylum seekers and migrants descend from a large fishing vessel used to transport them from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos. October 11, 2015.

Tran Thi Nga, rights activist, protests against the arrest of blogger "Mother Mushroom" in October 2016.