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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, delivering her regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 27 November 2014. (OSCE)

Protestors gather in New York City to demonstrate against the police shooting of Michael Brown (August 2014).

Makarim Wibisono, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.

Members of an ethnic Yezidi family sleep in the shade in Shekhadi village, Iraq, after fleeing Sinjar.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2nd left), is joined by his wife Yoo Soon-taek (right) and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (2nd right), as actress Teri Hatcher (left) flips the switch to illuminate the Empire State Building for the UNiTE to End Violence Against Women campaign.

The Spanish Congress should amend a deeply flawed public security bill that would curb spontaneous protest and formalize abusive expulsions of asylum seekers. The congressional committee on home affairs is due to adopt the bill on November 25, 2014, after which the bill will go the plenary for debate and vote in the coming days.

Jordanian authorities have forcibly deported vulnerable Syrian refugees back to Syria in violation of Jordan’s international obligations. Those deported include wounded men and unaccompanied children.