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Israeli settlement farms in the West Bank are using Palestinian child labor to grow, harvest, and pack agricultural produce, much of it for export, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 13 April, 2015. The farms pay the children low wages and subject them to dangerous working conditions in violation of international standards.

Empty market stalls that catered to tourists near Star Wharf in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila.

Aid distribution for displaced persons in Khost province, Afghanistan.

An estimated 400,000 people are displaced across Libya, including this man at a site near the capital, Tripoli.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) invalidated key claims in the so-called “podcasting patent” after a petition for review from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—a decision that significantly curtails the ability of a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small on April 10.

OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.

A mother and child in Yarmouk, Syria.

It was with great shock that I learned about the murder of five staff working for the international humanitarian NGO Save the Children in Afghanistan. This appalling act calls for the strongest condemnation. My thoughts go to the families and colleagues of the victims.

Moroccan authorities have persisted in their campaign to disrupt a leading independent human rights group despite two court rulings that authorities wrongfully prohibited its gatherings.

Tagging by the Bonde dos 40 (Streetcar of the 40, B40) gang at the entrance of the Liberdade neighborhood in São Luis to mark its territory.