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Mother and child in hospital in Cameroon’s Maroua town. Malnutrition in the country affected some 58,000 children in the country’s north and Far North Region in 2013.

Food aid arriving at an IDP camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.

The adoption of Tunisia’s new constitution should set in motion a wide-ranging overhaul of laws and public institutions, Al Bawsala, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch said. The constitution, which guarantees many fundamental rights and freedoms, should be implemented in a way that will provide the highest degree of protection of Tunisians’ human rights.

An EU Directive1 protects not only persons who can qualify for recognition as refugees, but also persons who do not qualify for this status but in respect of whom substantial grounds have been shown for believing that, if returned to their country of origin or country of former habitual residence, they would face a real risk of suffering serious harm (subsidiary protection regime). Serious harm consists, inter alia, in a serious and individual threat to a civilian’s life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict.

After 14 years of litigation and decades of community action, plaintiffs’ counsel and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement which will result in the withdrawal of the City’s appeal of the landmark stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York, brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, and co-counsel Beldock, Levine & Hoffman and Covington & Burling. In the Floyd case, a federal class action lawsuit seeking only injunctive relief, the district court found the City liable for a decade-long pattern of discriminatory and unconstitutional stops-and-frisks, but a series of developments in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily changed the conversation from one about unconstitutional and discriminatory policing to one about the internal workings of the courts. At the press conference, the focus was squarely back on reforming the police department.

In a resolution, PACE made a number of recommendations to increase international organisations’ accountability for human rights violations.

UN Military Police checking for weapons from people seeking shelter in the UNMISS compound in Bor, Jonglei state.

The Tachie reserve in northern British Columbia. In Carrier, the indigenous language in Tachie and many indigenous communities in northern BC, the literal translation of the word for police is “those who take us away.” An RCMP report on the historical involvement of the police in Canada’s residential school system found that “The police were not perceived as a source for help but rather as an authority figure who takes members of the community away from the reserve or makes arrests for wrong-doing.

Displaced and host families in Gasseré village wait for UNHCR to distribute blankets and kitchen kits.

Jordanian lawmakers should undertake critical reforms in 2014 to remove or amend laws that place impermissible limits on free expression, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2014.