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With record numbers of child refugees and migrants – 700 a day seeking asylum in Europe – UNICEF has identified five groups of vulnerable children and is mobilizing tailored actions to meet their needs.

Saudi Arabia’s recent labor reforms may help curb rampant abuses, but they exclude domestic workers and institutionalize bias against women.

Pope Francis should press President Hassan Rouhani on the need to advance religious freedom in Iran, Human Rights Watch said on November 13 in a joint letter to Pope Francis from 10 civil society organizations from around the globe. President Rouhani will meet the Pope on November 14, 2015, at the Vatican as part of an official trip to Italy.

The UK will contribute up to £275 million over the next two years to help Turkey address the consequences of the Syria conflict. This bilateral support will contribute to a wider European effort – coordinated through an intergovernmental agreement – that will lever support from other EU member states. Taken together with €500 million from the European Commission it will create a €3 billion package in total.

“To the victims I ask for forgiveness. I know it’s not sufficient, but I ask for forgiveness.” Bandjim Bandoum, once a top political police agent of the former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, had waited 25 years to unburden himself. Then he turned to Habré, sitting a few feet away, and said, “I have lived up to my responsibility, now it is time for you to live up to yours.” Habré remained silent, his face covered up in a turban and sunglasses.

The double suicide attack on the residential neighborhood of Bourj al-Barajneh, in Beirut, on November 12, 2015, was a callous and despicable act. The attack killed more than 40 people and wounded more than 200, according to a local news outlet. The extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.

The civil liberties committee on Tuesday approved a deal struck by Parliament and Council negotiators on new EU rules to ensure that the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in criminal proceedings is respected throughout the EU. The aim is to enhance the right to a fair trial and to strengthen member states' trust in each other's criminal justice systems.

Newly arrived families with children walk along the railway tracks from Serbia into Hungary, towards the Roszke collection point in Hungary where they will be taken in buses to temporary detention camps. September 8, 2015.

The second Convention on Conventional Weapons informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems at the UN in Geneva in April 2015.

Moroccan authorities should drop charges against a historian and other activists accused of using foreign funding to undermine internal security.