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Ukrainian border officials barred a prominent Russian human rights defender from entering the country, Human Rights Watch said. The Ukrainian government should reverse the decision and allow Andrei Yurov to enter Ukraine and carry out his human rights work.

Moroccan security forces commonly beat, otherwise abuse, and sometimes steal from sub-Saharan migrants in the northeastern part of the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released.

Cambodian authorities should release 21 activists and workers held since early January 2014, 12 international human rights and labor rights organizations said in an open letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen. The 21 are among 23 people detained during and after a crackdown on strikes and social unrest in Phnom Penh, the capital. The government should also lift its total ban on public gatherings.

Presidential candidates’ positions on human rights should be a central focus in the run-up to the April 2014 presidential elections in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in releasing candidates’ responses to a new human rights questionnaire.

OCHA's Valerie Amos visited Syria in March 2013 with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to Homs and parts of Baba Amr to assess the impact of the fighting. Ms. Amos said she was horrified by what she saw.

A view of the deserted streets in the town of Malakal, in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan, with Government troops on patrol in late January 2014.

The ICC in The Hague.

UNAMA human rights chief, Georgette Gagnon, pays a visit to a boy who was seriously injured by an IED explosion in February 2013.

A meeting of the High-Level Working Group on Gender Mainstreaming took place at Zappeion Megaron, in Athens on 6-7 February 2014. The meeting, which held under the Greek Presidency of the EU Council, was attended by state authorities in charge of gender equality in the 28 Member States, officials of the European Commission, the Secretariat of the Council, and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). The aim of the meeting was the coordination of action plans of the current tripartite Presidency in the field of gender equality in the European Union.

Survivors and relatives of garment workers, who are still missing after the Rana Plaza building collapse, take part in a protest in front of the site in Savar on November 24, 2013.