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Three young brides 11, 12, and 13, are married to three brothers during a combined ceremony in the rural areas outside Hajjah.

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, speaking at the 12th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, Vienna, 11 October 2012.

A migrant worker, who described being beaten by Lebanese soldiers, shows his bruises in Beirut on October 8, 2012.

L-r: Douglas Griffin, Director, Albany Associates; Christian Möller, Expert, Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; Andrey Rikhter, Director, Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; and Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, during the opening of the 9th annual South Caucasus Media Conference, Tbilisi, 11 October 2012.

Memorial event of a candlelit vigil at the Mandala organized by citizens’ peace group Himsa Birodh.

Human Rights Watch interviewed 10 children, some as young as 11, working in tanneries. Many children work 12 or even 14 hours a day, considerably more than the five-hour limit for adolescents in factory work established by Bangladeshi law. Dhaka, June 2012.

Police officers perform an identity check and body pat-down of a young man in Paris, France on June 6, 2011.

The Nepali cabinet’s decision on October 4, 2012, to promote a colonel suspected of involvement in war crimes to the rank of brigadier general is a slap in the face for the victims of Nepal’s protracted civil war, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists said.