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A 15-year-old boy mixes mercury and ground gold ore at a processing site in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

Civil rights organizations this week welcomed news that the Department of Education's (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has closed three investigations against three University of California schools, at Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and Irvine, which falsely alleged that Palestinian rights activism created an anti-Semitic climate. The complaints underlying the investigation claimed that student protests and academic programing in support of Palestinian rights and critical of Israel "created a hostile environment for Jewish students."

A man stands on a bus in the Sharg al Nil area of Khartoum, Sudan, where as many as 530,000 people may have been affected since the start of August 2013.

Human Rights Watch is launching its first-ever office in Australia on August 28, 2013, with the aim to increase its engagement and advocacy with the Australian government on human rights issues in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere.

Israeli forces demolished every structure in the Bedouin community of Tel `Adasa, in East Jerusalem, on August 19, 2013.

Responding to the urgent needs of thousands of displaced persons and their host community in Nobili, North Kivu, DRC, UNICEF and Merlin delivered 3.5 tons of medical/nutritional supplies to the area, August 16, as part of the OCHA/UNICEF-led Rapid Response to Movements of Population (RRMP) program.

Technology can help reach disaster-hit communities.

People displaced by fighting between M23 and FARDC set up camp on the outskirts of Goma.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and acclaimed actor Danny Glover joined children for a friendly game of dodge ball in Sarajevo in a show of active support of the “It’s About Ability” campaign to promote inclusion for children with disabilities.

Returning to New York after a two-day joint visit with international NGO representatives to Colombia, OCHA Operations Director John Ging said that while the humanitarian situation had improved greatly, there was still more to be done.