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Photocopy of a photograph of the dead bodies of two victims of alleged false positive killings committed in Meta department in 2004, with army troops in the background. The photograph was taken when authorities inspected the scene. The photocopy, with markings drawn by a witness, comes from the Attorney General’s Office’s criminal case file.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International called on United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a June 23, 2015 letter to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture and other violations of US law in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s detention and interrogation program. The letter was attached to petitions signed by 111,788 concerned individuals supporting appointment of a special prosecutor.

Afghan youth rest at the Lesbos harbor after walking 30 hours from the point where their boat reached land.

Kenya, June 2011. Shari (aged 13) collects rubbish at the dump in Korogocho slum, in order to survive and support her family and sick mother.

Transgender people face discrimination and abuse from state officials and agents, including from public sector health workers, teachers, and local government administrators.

Singapore authorities should exonerate a 16-year-old convicted for a blog and video post about the death of Singapore’s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, Human Rights Watch said on June 22. Amos Yee Pang Sang has a sentencing hearing on June 23, 2015, and faces up to three years in prison or 18 months in a juvenile detention center. On May 12 a court found Yee guilty of uploading an allegedly obscene image and making remarks deemed “insulting to religion” in a video.

The government’s response to a decade-long insurgency in Dagestan, a southern Russian republic, has been marked by serious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on June 18. Insurgents also have attacked civilians.