UN hails entry into force of new convention for global shipping industry
Thailand: Release and Protect Rohingya ‘Boat People’
Undocumented Rohingya Muslim immigrants gather at the Immigration Detention Center...
Warimu Gachenga, elderly slum resident: "Even buying soap is a problem"
Wairimu Gachenga.
UN agencies mount swift response as Syrian refugees pour into Iraq’s Kurdistan region
Syrians who fled across the Peshkhabour border into Kurdistan in northern Iraq walk towards a makeshift reception centre.
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Egypt: Security Forces Used Excessive Lethal Force
Egyptian security forces’ rapid and massive use of lethal force to disperse sit-ins on August 14, 2013 led to the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.
UK: Detention Appears Aimed at Intimidating Journalists
The shocking detention of David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, a journalist at the Guardian, at London’s Heathrow airport on August 18, 2013, appears aimed at punishing or intimidating journalists, Human Rights Watch said.
Ban condemns ambush on police officers in the Sinai
Demonstrators clash with police in central Cairo, Egypt.
UN spotlights plight of more than 1 million displaced Iraqis, calls for durable solutions
Al-Rustumiya, an informal settlement for displaced people on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Somalia: UN envoy voices concern over rape allegations at African Union facility
Special Representative Nicholas Kay listening in Mogadishu to one of a group of Somali women...
Integration of formerly deported people in Crimea, Ukraine, is focus of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities’ latest report
This image was taken from the cover of a report by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities called "The integration of...
