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The first emergency decree under Turkey’s state of emergency is arbitrary, discriminatory, and unjustified as a response to the violent coup attempt or other public order concerns.

A young girl at the Bhagyanagar Children’s’ homes, which supports children between 6 and 14 who have lost their parents or are children of migrant labourers. Many of the girls and boys are at risk of becoming involved in child labour before they arrive.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most serious and pervasive human rights violations. More needs to be done to eliminate this problem so that women can participate without barriers in all spheres of life, said participants of a high-level OSCE conference on July 22 in Vienna.

Refugees from South Sudan arrive at a UNHCR collection centre on the South Sudan border in Egelo, Uganda.

Sayed Parwez Ahmadi, 36, and his six-year-old daughter wait at the Hungarian transit zone where they have now been for over two weeks.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the U.S. government on July 21 on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment.

A Bahrain prosecutor on July 17, 2016, charged a correspondent for a French media outlet with violating the country’s licensing law for journalists, Human Rights Watch said on July 24. The criminal charges against the journalist, Nazeeha Saeed, who has covered Bahrain’s domestic unrest for France 24 since 2009, violate her right to free expression and further undermines media freedom in Bahrain.

Women IDPs, who were rescued by the army from Bama local government area (in March 2015) in Dalori camp in Maiduguri.

Refugees from South Sudan are transported from Elego town to the Numanzi Transit Center where meals and temporary accommodation are provided by UNHCR in Adjumani, northern Uganda.