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An inmate in the Pedrinhas prison complex.

Veronica Limia leaves the Florida Institute for Girls on October 11, 2001. Veronica was prosecuted as an adult at age 17 for burglary.

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.

Ex-Séléka deserters seeking protection from peacekeepers at their base at Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic (CAR) on 6 July 2014.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance, U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, expressed deep concern over the fatal shooting of Walter Scott by a police officer on 4 April in the U.S. state of South Carolina on 10 April.

Human Rights Watch filed suit on April 7, 2015, against the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for illegally collecting records of the organization’s telephone calls to foreign countries.

The next generation of weapons in military arsenals could be "killer robots," machines that would select and destroy specific targets without further human intervention. But if a robot broke the law, who would be held responsible? Would the programmer, manufacturer, military commander, or robot end up in court?

International Roma Day is held every year on 8 April to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Roma people. Europe’s largest ethnic minority - an estimated 10 million Roma live in Europe and six million within the EU - is often subject to discrimination and social exclusion. On 25 March MEPs debated current Roma discrimination and EU recognition of the Roma genocide in WWII.

The Tunisian government’s new draft counterterrorism law would permit extended incommunicado detention, weaken due process guarantees for people charged with terrorism offenses, and allow the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on 8 April in a report outlining the concerns sent to Tunisian legislators.

The UN family in Rwanda commemorates the 21st anniversary of the genocide.