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Wide view of the Security Council meeting on women and peace and security.

A man scanning the voters list for his name outside a polling station in Elbasan during the Albanian presidential elections, 23 June 2013.

One year after the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference building “The future we want” – Rio’s outcome – will be dependent on children being at the heart of the post-2015 agenda, says UNICEF.

Ivorian widows run a small restaurant in Yopougon, Côte d'Ivoire

Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court sentenced a prominent human rights activist to five years in prison on June 17, 2013, based on his writings and exposure of human rights abuses. Mikhlif al-Shammari was convicted of “sowing discord” and other offenses and barred from travelling for 10 years.

The New York State Assembly should enact a bill that would prohibit the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution-related offenses. Assembly bill 2736 was voted out of the New York State Assembly Rules Committee on June 20, 2013 and could be passed by the full assembly before the session ends.

The United States House of Representatives should reject an expansive immigration enforcement bill that would worsen existing abuses within the US immigration system.

The Chinese government, under the rationale of a campaign to improve rural living standards, has sent more than 20,000 officials and communist party cadres to Tibetan villages to undertake intrusive surveillance of people, carry out widespread political re-education, and establish partisan security units, said Human Rights Watch. These tactics discriminate against those perceived as potentially disloyal, and restrict their freedom of religion and opinion.

UNICEF and Save the Children welcome the passing of the Children’s Bill 2013 by the National Parliament of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad). The new law is based on the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and has referred to the CRC in the preamble.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, speaking at the opening session of the OSCE's Internet 2013 conference at the Hofburg in Vienna, 14 February 2013.