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On 28 April, Akriti Tamang, 8, stands amid the ruins of her home, in Sangachowk Village in Sindhupalchowk District, one of the areas worst affected by the massive earthquake

Representatives of the KTU’s (Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union) Seoul branch protest a new government sex education policy which fails to include homosexuality or sexual minorities.

Rescue workers transport one of the bodies found at an abandoned camp in Thailand's southern Songkhla province on May 1, 2015.

Members of French Army (Operation Sangaris) inspecting rockets stored in Camp de Roux, Central African Republic.

Officials from the internationally recognized Libyan government said in a statement on April 29, 2015, that two Tunisian journalists who had been missing in eastern Libya since September 2014 had been killed.

Mothers line up to register their children in Rwanda after fleeing their native Burundi.

Cambodia’s refusal to allow asylum seekers from Vietnam to register and seek refugee status demonstrates a dismal failing to abide by international refugee law, LICADHO and Human Rights Watch said on May 1. In the last four months, Cambodia has forcibly deported 54 Vietnamese asylum seekers, and appears poised to deport 40 more.

UN peacekeepers in Ansongo, Mali.

May 3 is the World Press Freedom Day. This day is an opportunity to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; to assess the state of press freedom throughout the world; to defend the media from attacks on their independence; and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty. In Bangladesh, however, the day will be observed as yet another day, where scribes will continue to face physical threat and other harassment, falsely implicated in criminal cases, and arbitrarily detained for just doing their job.