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Several thousand children are among an estimated 12,000 Iraqi refugees now sheltering at a camp in neighbouring Syria after crossing the remote border between the two countries.

One hundred and three children age 8 to 17 were released over the past week from armed groups in Bangui following negotiations with armed group leaders.

Spain should immediately halt summary returns of migrants to Morocco from its North African enclave, Melilla, Human Rights Watch said. Spain should also investigate evidence that Guardia Civil officers beat migrants at the border fence.

There is strong evidence that Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) has carried out a series of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Human Rights Watch also found evidence of arbitrary arrests and mistreatment of terrorism suspects in detention.

Malian refugees, carrying their belongings, approach UNHCR vehicles that will carry them to a camp in Burkina Faso. This was one of the major population displacements of the year.

Displaced people in eastern Libya outside the town of Ajdabiya.

Beltran being detained by police

Independent Expert on Minority Issues Rita Izsak.

Burundian authorities should hold accountable those responsible for a 2004 massacre of Congolese refugees, Human Rights Watch said. More than 150 refugees, most of them women and children, were killed and more than 100 others injured, on August 13, 2004, at Gatumba, in one of the worst ethnically targeted attacks in Burundi since the 1990s. The leaders of the armed group that claimed responsibility have not been brought to justice.

Police in Ferguson, Missouri should stop using intimidation tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists following the police killing of a young African-American man on August 9, 2014.