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Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, during the 11th High-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference, Vienna, 20

Houses formerly inhabited by ethnic-Georgians in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia lie in a state of disrepair after their owners fled during and after the war in 2008. On 14 August 2012, the de facto leader of South Ossetia announced plans to demolish the remains of ethnic-Georgian villages. This photograph was taken in November 2010, during the last visit of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek to South Ossetia.

Dark clouds from Tropical storm Tomas of 2010 loom over a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince.

UNHCR comes to the assistance of older, disabled and sickly refugees in South Sudan.

The killings of more than 30 workers in the Marikana platinum mine have put the spotlight on working conditions in South Africa’s mining industry.

A Syrian refugee family in Halba, northern Lebanon.

A Kachin boy outside an unrecognized refugee camp in Yunnan, China, in January 2012.

United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran’s drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said.

Houses formerly inhabited by ethnic-Georgians in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia lie in a state of disrepair after their owners fled during and after the war in 2008. On 14 August 2012, the de facto leader of South Ossetia announced plans to demolish the remains of ethnic-Georgian villages. This photograph was taken in November 2010, during the last visit of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek to South Ossetia.

The OSCE/ODIHR opened an election observation mission in Tbilisi on 22 August ahead of the parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on 1 October.