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Nicaragua’s total ban on abortion is putting women and girls’ health and lives at risk, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 31. The country’s 2006 law punishing abortion – without any exceptions, even if pregnancies are life-threatening or resulted from rape – has driven abortions underground. The ban has not stopped abortion, but has made it more unsafe.

Kenyan authorities should urgently investigate the abduction and killing of a high-level official of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Human Rights Watch said on Jul 31. A family member said police had taken the body of Christopher Chege Msando, the commission’s acting information and communications technology director, to Nairobi’s City Mortuary but failed to notify the family.

Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Executions.

The Armenian government has failed to ensure full accountability for police violence against largely peaceful protesters and journalists a year ago, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 30. At the same time the authorities have indicted at least 32 protesters, convicting 21 of them, with 11 sentenced to prison.

Children with albinism are often abused in Africa.

A Tunisian woman holds up a flag during a march to celebrate International Women's Day in Tunis March 8, 2014. 

An Iraqi army division trained by the United States government allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosul’s Old City, Human Rights Watch said on July 27, 2017. Two international observers detailed the summary killings of four people by the Iraqi army’s 16th Division in mid-July 2017, and saw evidence that the unit had executed many more people, including a boy.

An Iraqi army division trained by the United States government allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosul’s Old City, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 27. Two international observers detailed the summary killings of four people by the Iraqi army’s 16th Division in mid-July 2017, and saw evidence that the unit had executed many more people, including a boy.

The law on violence against women, including domestic violence, approved by the Tunisian parliament on July 26, 2017, is a landmark step for women’s rights, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 27. Tunisian authorities should ensure that there is adequate funding and political will to put the law fully into effect and to eliminate discrimination against women.

OHCHR examines the issue of involuntary separation of Korean families from a human rights perspective.