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A month after the adoption of Security Council resolution 2139, assessments show that progress on humanitarian access in Syria has been very limited.

Military men who are targets of frightening and threatening sexual harassment may experience more distress and work performance problems than military women who face the same treatment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Advancing women’s rights: a community-based educator addresses a health shura for mothers.

Human beings, however poor or however oppressed, seek justice in the same way. Even a tuberculosis patient looks for fresh air. All wisdom traditions have associated justice as having the same character as fresh air. To deny justice is to deny a fundamental condition of being human.

Russia’s State Duma should reject a draft law to ban publishing negative information about the Russian government and military. The government should put a decisive end to its relentless crackdown on free expression.

The sponsors of a discriminatory and stigmatizing draft bill to curtail lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights should withdraw it from Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, Human Rights Watch said. Such a law would infringe on freedom of expression, association, and assembly rights, and discriminate against Kyrgyzstan’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Muslims wait to be evacuated in the PK12 neighborhood after they fled attacks by anti-balaka forces. The minority Muslim population in the Central African Republic is being targeted by Christian anti-balaka militias in a relentless wave of coordinated violence that is forcing entire communities to leave the country. January 23, 2014.

High Commissionner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addresses the 25th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The Greek government should immediately drop plans that would deter migrant victims from reporting law enforcement abuse. The government should also reintroduce measures to protect undocumented victims and witnesses of crimes, including racist violence. Parliament is debating these issues as it examines a draft immigration code.