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The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, opens a session on media freedom at the OSCE's Review Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 7 October 2010.

Bangladesh’s discriminatory personal laws on marriage, separation, and divorce trap many women and girls in abusive marriages or drive them into poverty when marriages fall apart, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. In many cases these laws contribute to homelessness, hunger, and ill-health for divorced or separated women and their children. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have recorded significantly higher levels of food insecurity and poverty among female-headed Bangladeshi households.

The Khlistov family house, which the Russian authorities plan to demolish to make way for construction of infrastructure in advance of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The family has put up signs in an effort to protect their home.

The latest round of official 5+2 talks towards a Transdniestrian settlement concluded in Vienna.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović addressing media at the first OSCE South East Europe Media Conference, Sarajevo, 14 October 2011.

(L-r) Elma Šehalić, Media Analyst for the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine; Stefan Krause, Deputy Head of Mission, and Dame Audrey Glover, Head of the Mission (OSCE)

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets with refugees on the Jordanian border minutes after they crossed from Syria.

An open-air industrial space in Yunnan occupied by several hundred Kachin refugees, emptied during daylight hours as refugees seek day labor, food, and medicine.

A girl’s dress caught on the Sinai border fence separating Egypt and Israel.

In a camp for internally displaced people in Kachin state, Myanmar, a family of five meets with a UNHCR staff.