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Guns are common among pastoralists in Abyei.

Overcrowding at the main evacuation centre in the coastal province of Zamboanga, Philippines, is causing increasing health risks and vulnerability for at least 70, 000 people.

As the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Torch Relay kicks off in Moscow, the route is marked by major human rights abuses.

Deploring the “appalling” suicide bomb attack that killed over 10 children and injured dozens more in northern Iraq, a senior United Nations official appealed to the conflict-wracked country’s political, religious and civil leaders to find a way to put an end to the violence.

A Syrian government airstrike using fuel-air explosive bombs hit outside a secondary school in the opposition-held city of Raqqa on September 29, 2013, killing at least 14 civilians. At least 12 of those killed were students attending their first day of classes.

The death toll from Thursday’s migrant boat tragedy off the Italian island of Lampedusa has risen to 111, according to the UN Refugee agency (UNHCR).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the General Assembly’s High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.

Violence against children crosses social, economic and cultural lines, affecting millions of children worldwide. In an effort to address this issue and provide solutions, UNICEF’s Office of Research reached out to experts globally and gathered more than 100 years of expertise into a video debate focusing on the plight of violence against children.

Malaysian lawmakers have approved controversial changes to a security law that would allow authorities to detain people for years without charging them with any crime.

The Russian state prosecutor laid charges of piracy against a Greenpeace activist who protested against oil drilling in the Arctic. A freelance videographer has also been charged with piracy, which carries a maximum 15 year jail sentence. It is an extreme and disproportionate charge. Charges are expected to be brought against other Greenpeace campaigners over the coming hours and days.