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A mother prepares a meal for her children on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei which was burned during the ethnic clashes.

A family in a home-made shelter in Kobe camp, Dollo Ado region of Ethiopia.

Realizing human rights and achieving sustainable development are inter-dependent and mutually-reinforcing goals. States must ensure that the Outcome Document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development recognizes the centrality of human rights to sustainable development and reaffirms the international human rights framework.

French minister for women is all set to organise a conference of experts on how to contain the sex-trade and human-trafficking.

Members of a Syrian family register as refugees in northern Lebanon.

Israel's crackdown on human trafficking has improved over the past year and reached an all-time high, according to the US State Department's 2012 Trafficking of Persons report published Wednesday.

Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peacful assembly and of associationMaina Kiai.

UNHCR set up the first camps in the Dadaab complex in 1991 to host up to 90,000 people. Today they host more than 463,000 refugees.

After praying the Angelus today, the Pope made some remarks about World Refugee Day, an initiative promoted by the United Nations which is celebrated on 20 June. "It seeks to draw the attention of the international community to the situation of so many people, especially families, who are forced to flee their own lands because threatened by armed conflict and serious forms of violence", the Holy Father said. "I assure these severely tried brothers and sisters of the Holy See's prayers and constant solicitude, at the same time expressing the hope that their rights may always be respected and that they may soon be able to be reunited with their loved ones".