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From right: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, broadcaster Femi Oke and Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at Women's Day event.

Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Civilians displaced by increasing LRA attacks.

OCHA Director of Operations John Ging in Central African Republic.

Nineteen-year old Tibetan student Tsering Kyi died after setting fire to herself, March 5, 2012

The company at the center of the nuclear meltdown disaster in Japan has been subject to enormous public, government and international criticism over the past year.

The decision by Singapore’s Manpower Ministry to grant foreign domestic workers a weekly rest day is an important reform but falls short of international standards, Human Rights Watch said today.

The World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education includes more than 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Professor Worachet Pakeerut, a law professor at Thammasat University, leader of the Khana Nitirat, and human rights defender (HRD), was assaulted by two men outside the Faculty of Law at Thammasat University.

An Egyptian court has rejected the second of two lawsuits filed by ultra-conservative Islamists that had accused a Christian media mogul of insulting Islam when he relayed a cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.