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Special Representative Hilde Johnson holds press conference in Juba, capital of South Sudan.

The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water source for their cattle.

Displaced children from Ajdabiya play in the grounds of a converted construction camp in Benghazi, Libya

Judges at the opening of the war crimes trial, of Thomas Kwoyelo, before Uganda’s International Crimes Division.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EASTERN CONNECTICUT HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY, P.C., with offices located at 330 Washington Street in Norwich, has entered into a civil settlement with the government in which it will pay $316,513 to resolve allegations that the practice violated the False Claims Act.

The release of key political prisoners on January 13, 2012 is a crucial development in promoting respect for human rights in Burma, but all remaining political prisoners should be freed immediately and unconditionally, Human Rights Watch said today.

Taliban threats are making life miserable for many girls and women in remote areas of Pakistan

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) preparing a meal in South Sudan.

A memo was released to the EU by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) that puts pressure on a human rights dialogue held in Vietnam today. Bloggers Nguyen Van Hai (a.k.a. Dieu Cay) and Phan Thanh Hai (a.k.a. Anhbasg) had been held without trial since 2010, and Bui Thi Minh Hang for participating in earlier protests.

Residents of an IDP camp in North Kivu receive food rations distributed by WFP and an NGO