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Children with disabilities in Russia face serious obstacles to accessing quality education, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on September 1. The Russian government should build on progress to date to make sure that children with disabilities are not shut out from quality, inclusive education at all levels of the education system.

Seventy-one decomposing bodies discovered in a truck on the side of an Austrian highway. Two hundred presumed drowned when their boat sunk off the Libyan coast. Fifty-two people found suffocated in the hold of another boat. This relentless catalogue of death, within the space of 24 hours, is a particularly grim reminder of the crisis at and within EU borders.

The Burmese election commission should immediately revoke new regulations that prohibit political parties and candidates from criticizing the Burmese military and the constitution on state media, Human Rights Watch said on August 31. Curtailing discussion of issues fundamental to Burma’s future violates the right to free expression and deprives the public of the right to information and the ability to debate key issues, which is a central purpose of democratic elections.

The Israeli authorities’ declared ban on recently released Eritrean and Sudanese nationals living and working in Tel Aviv and Eilat violates their right to freedom of movement, Human Rights Watch said on August 31. About 41,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals live in Israel, most of them in Tel Aviv, Arad, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Eilat, and Jerusalem, although there are no known statistics showing how many live in each city.

Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

Exhausted asylum-seekers after days of walking take some rest at the Rozke police centre before being moved to detention centres elsewhere in Hungary.

Relatives of abducted children speak out for the disappeared in Lamwo district, northern Uganda.

The UN refugee agency has facilitated the return of over 50,000 registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan so far this year under the agency's largest and longest running voluntary repatriation programme.

A young boy in a UNICEF-supported camp for children formerly associated with the anti-Balaka rebel group, in Central African Republic. He was released with more than 300 children in mid-May.