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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.

Children at the protection of civilians (POC) site in Malakal town, South Sudan.

The European Commission should pursue enforcement action against the government of Poland under the Article 7 of the EU treaty, as the government continues to undermine the rule of law, Amnesty International, FIDH, Human Rights Watch, the Open Society European Policy Institute, and Reporters Without Borders said in a letter to the Commission on Feb 16. The European Union and its member states need to show resolve to halt Poland’s backsliding from the common values of the EU, the organizations said.