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A volunteer in the South Sudanese town of Bor arranges corpses, victims of repeated clashes between government forces and rebels.

The Obama administration has issued updated guidelines to ensure that U.S. public schools carry out federal laws giving children of illegal immigrants the right to an education.

Human Rights Watch deeply mourns the passing of Jean-Baptiste Bengehya Mwezi, our operations manager in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who died of a sudden illness on May 6, 2014.

Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges and immediately release bloggers Nguyen Huu Vinh (also known as Ba Sam) and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Human Rights Watch said. The two were arrested on May 5, 2014, for publishing articles on the Internet, and charged under article 258 of the penal code for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the state.”

Since June 2013, attacks in northeastern Nigeria have resulted in school closures affecting thousands of students, many of whom have had no access to education in months.

UNESCO and the Italian football club Juventus have joined forces to combat racism and discrimination in sport. The partnership will be officially kicked off on 2 June, when a parade of stars from Juventus’ and Real Madrid’s legendary pasts face off in the UNESCO Cup at the Juventus Stadium in Turin

The Chinese government should immediately drop charges against prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, clarify the status of journalist Gao Yu, and release other activists who have been detained for commemorating the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, Human Rights Watch said. The Chinese government should also not silence, detain, or disappear any other rights advocates in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the massacre.

Far too many US laws violate basic principles of justice by requiring disproportionately severe punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released.

Aleksandr Vovk, member of Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners from Novogradovka, abducted by anti-Kiev forces on May 4, 2014, after his release.