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Turkmen authorities dropped a 13-year travel ban against three family members of an exiled dissident, Pirkuli Tanrykuliev, allowing them to leave the country on June 4, 2016, a coalition of human rights groups said on June 9. Tanrykuliev’s daughter, Ayjemal Rejepova, and her two daughters, ages 3 and 11, were able to fly to Turkey, where Tanrykuliev’s wife awaited them.

When a family-owned mink farm in Illinois was attacked by animal rights extremists in 2013, 2,000 minks were released from their cages and a barn was spray-painted with the words “Liberation is Love.”

The International Labor Conference (ILC) took a decision that may eventually have a profound impact on the millions of vulnerable people who work in global supply chains on June 10.

Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng briefs the press.

A southern white rhinoceros at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.

Displaced children from Mosul jump on mattresses outside their shelter at Baharka Camp on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq.

Refugee youth from Rwanda, Congo, Somalia and Angola perform a song written about their experiences as refugees at the Global Refugee Youth Consultation in Zambia.

China’s authorities should suspend plans to demolish residences at a historic Buddhist monastery in Sichuan province and negotiate with the community’s leadership, Human Rights Watch said on June 9. The government plans to eliminate quarters for all but 5,000 monks, nuns, and laypeople at the Academy of Larung Gar, one of the world’s largest monastic institutions, by September 2017, cutting numbers there by at least half.

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.