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Special Representative Nicholas Kay listening in Mogadishu to one of a group of Somali women activists about a number of their concerns.

This image was taken from the cover of a report by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities called "The integration of formerly deported people in Crimea.

In a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge ruled that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime against humanity and that the fundamental human rights of LGBTI people are protected under international law.

A group of children in Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Thousands of people flowed from Syria across the Peshkhabour border crossing into Iraq's Dohuk Governorate.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today called for an investigation into the killing of Azzedine Qusad on 9 August.

Hundreds of thousands of women displaced by conflict and living in camps in Somalia are especially vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence, having lost their families and homes.

Darfur has seen a new wave of fighting and displacement in 2013.

The trial of Ghulam Azam, the former chief of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islaami (Jamaat) party, at Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal was deeply flawed and did not meet international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said.