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At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.

A woman rides a bicycle to work in Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay.

With a foreign policy in tatters, the judiciary and the legal system in deep crisis and the state of the economy looking more perilous with each monumentally wasteful government extravaganza, the seasonal call of the koha heralding the Sinhala and Tamil New Year sounds more eerily mocking than musical.

Children at an IDP camp in Kabo, northern Central African Republic.

The 4 March 2012 munitions blasts caused extensive damage to residential areas in Brazzaville.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received deeply concerning information from Stateless Watch for Research and Development Institute of Thailand (SWIT) regarding a recent draft ministerial regulation proposed by the Ministry of Interior. If it enters into law, the draft Ministerial Regulation Specifying the Status and Conditions of Residing in the Kingdom of Thailand for Persons Born in the Kingdom of Thailand Who Are Not Thai Nationals, currently under examination by the Council of Ministers, will dispossess children born to non-Thai parents of citizenship. Under the draft regulation, children, and adults born in Thailand, to non-Thai parents will be deemed to have entered and resided in Thailand without permission under the Immigration Act B.E. 2522 (1979). This will be the case even though they were born in Thailand and have not left the country, and so therefore have not entered the country, whether legally or illegally. The draft regulation is contrary to domestic and international law, including that specified in conventions to which Thailand is a state party and is therefore legally bound to observe.

Fleeing insecurity

With doctors fleeing and healthcare facilities under attack, many Syrians have had to rely on makeshift clinics, like this one in Atme camp for displaced people in northern Syria.