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Child being vaccinated against measles

One of the few workers who has not been laid off at the Modern Industrial Group's factory in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, which is suffering from Israel’s export ban

The United States is working to end the "information blockade" of North Korea that Pyongyang used to hide its rights abuses and keep its citizens ignorant about the world outside, a top diplomat said Thursday.

The Rohingya, an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority in Myanmar.

Israeli security officials have arrested 62 African migrants in the past two days as part of a new operation to deport illegal aliens. Human rights activists are protesting, saying the government should first determine their asylum status.

Amnesty International has reported a court hearing in Kuwait, in which a man was convicted for messages posted on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

Creflo Dollar, the head of an American megachurch, has denied domestic violence claims.

Internal displacement is a common consequence across Nigeria of inter-communal and political violence, flooding and forced evictions. While some of the conflicts appear to be caused by overlapping and mutually reinforcing regional, religious and ethnic divisions, but violence often stems from competition for scarce opportunities and communal resources.

Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy speaks at press conference.