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Alexei Kravets in front of his home on the Black Sea coast in Sochi. The house is slated for demolition to make way for a key road for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Colombian honour guard at the Presidential Palace in Bogotá.

Saleh Amhad Abdullah, 16, in intensive care at Aden's al-Nabiq Hospital, two days after being shot in the head on October 7, 2012, during an exchange of gunfire while he was selling fruit outside the medical center.

The Pakistani government should take immediate steps to protect students, teachers, schools, and rights defenders at risk of attack, Human Rights Watch said.

Filda lost her leg in a landmine explosion in Uganda. She faces discrimination in her community and has not benefitted from government livelihood assistance programs.

President Benigno Aquino III should sign into law a bill criminalizing enforced disappearances in the Philippines, Human Rights Watch said. The Philippine Congress passed the bill, the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012, on October 16, 2012, and sent it to the president for signature.

OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, during a ceremony where she received a Trafficking in Persons Hero Award from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to honour her significant contributions in the struggle to end modern-day slavery, Washington, 19 June 2012.

Bodies of apparent execution victims found at the Mahari Hotel in Sirte on October 22, 2011, the day after the final battle with the Gaddafi convoy. An estimated 66 captured members of the Gaddafi convoy were apparently executed at the site by opposition fighters. Human Rights Watch researchers visited the site on October 23, 2011, and found the decomposing bodies of 53 apparent execution victims, all male, still at the scene.

The Philippines Senate should remove a provision in a draft law that allows for the prosecution of the parents of children recruited to be soldiers. With that revision, the proposed law, the Special Protection of Children in Situations of Armed Conflict Bill, should be enacted into law, the groups said.