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Member of the punk band "Pussy Riot" Nadezhda Tolokonnikova looks out from a holding cell as she attends a court hearing Supreme Court of Mordovia in Saransk on July 26, 2013.

Cécile Pouilly, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Greenpeace International condemned a series of Russian court rulings which left dozens of activists in custody pending investigations into a peaceful Arctic oil protest. The group insisted it would not be intimidated and its lawyers would lodge an appeal seeking their immediate release.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving in the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week following a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling.

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Men and women at the entrance of a school in Romania that teaches people with disabilities. Photo: World Bank

Workshop bringing together business leaders, child rights advocates and country experts who explored the impact that companies have on children’s rights and the responsibility of the global business community to support and respect children’s rights.

Colourful apartment buildings in Tirana, the Albanian capital.

Over half of Syrian refugees in Lebanon are children.