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In response the announcement that the Department of Justice has closed, without charges, investigations of CIA interrogations of two detainees who died in U.S. custody oversees, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement

UNHCR and partners have organized activities for Syrian refugee children in the Bekaa Valley.

Syrian refugees, most from Abu-Kamal, Syria, take shelter in one of 17 schools located in al-Qaim. The Iraqi government has been confining them there since late July. The schools, and one tent camp in al-Qaim where they are being transfered, are guarded by the Iraqi police and military. August 9, 2012.

A masked Iranian policeman preparing for the public hanging of a convicted criminal in Tehran on August 2, 2007.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand guard in front of the BNP party office in Dhaka on March 12, 2012.

Ishmael Beah had been orphaned and was fleeing war in his native Sierra Leone when he went to a military base seeking safety. Instead, soldiers gave the teenager a weapon and forced him to serve in one of Africa's most brutal conflicts.

For two years, Yulia Averyanova ran Perspektiva’s sports programs and now remains a consultant with the organization. Yulia enjoys skiing, ice skating, and paragliding. Recently, she introduced a blind friend to the delight of downhill skiing.

On July 16, 2004, police from Kalasin's Muang district station arrested Kiettisak Thitboonkrong for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, during the 11th High-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference, Vienna, 20

Houses formerly inhabited by ethnic-Georgians in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia lie in a state of disrepair after their owners fled during and after the war in 2008. On 14 August 2012, the de facto leader of South Ossetia announced plans to demolish the remains of ethnic-Georgian villages. This photograph was taken in November 2010, during the last visit of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek to South Ossetia.