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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.

The Russian government appears to be breaking its promises to investigate civilian casualties from airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch said on Feb 19.

Zahrah, a widow and mother of eight displaced by war, sits in a makeshift shelter in Sana’a, Yemen.

The Israeli authorities must repeal the discriminatory Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, which continues to bar family reunification for thousands of Palestinians, Amnesty International said on 19 February. Nearly 14 years after the law was adopted as a temporary order, the Israeli authorities can no longer continue to use security grounds to justify institutional racial discrimination.

On 13 February 2017, first grade students, including Sasha (in red sweater), 6, participate in a drill to practice their response during a shelling in a part of the school building with strong walls.

The drought has now spread throughout Somalia, threatening an already fragile population battered by decades of conflict. It is expected that 944,000 children will be acutely malnourished this year.

Children look over the wall on the roof of their house at clouds of smoke from oil wells which were set on fire by ISIL when they fled Qayyarah, a town south of Mosul.

The Russian government appears to be breaking its promises to investigate civilian casualties from airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch said on February 19.

The Russian government appears to be breaking its promises to investigate civilian casualties from airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch said on Feb 18.

The trial of the prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is scheduled to resume on February 21, 2017, Human Rights Watch said on Feb 18. He faces a total of 18 years in prison based on two sets of speech-related charges that clearly violate his right to free expression. His eight months in pretrial custody appeared to amount to arbitrary detention.