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Belkis, 15 years old, holds her one-year-old son in her mother’s house which she returned to after the husband she was married to at age 13 abandoned her. She fears her family’s home will be washed away by river erosion by the end of the year.

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea Sheila B. Keetharuth.

Mass gravesite on the edge of the Fula-Fula cemetery in Maluku, on the outskirts of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where government officials say 421 bodies were buried during the early morning hours of March 19, 2015.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has presided over the flagrant abuse of human rights since taking office a year ago pledging to restore stability. Violence by armed groups and the government has escalated.

The survival of 17,000 children and 800 mothers is at stake every day if leaders and heads of state do not take decisive action at the 41st G7 summit in Germany this weekend, warns Save the Children and Save the Children Action Network.

Eritrean children at Shagarab camp in eastern Sudan (2010).

Intellectual property rights are an essential part of the economy.

Destruction in Salah Ed Din neighbourhood, Syria.

A new EU strategy for equality between women and men beyond 2015 will be debated by MEPs on Monday 8 June. The draft EP resolution drafted by Maria Noichl states that progress in the EU has been slow and that much remains to be done over the next five years. Watch the debate live on our website on Monday 8 June from 18.00 CET and check out our infographic to see how successful member states have been in achieving gender equality.

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed.