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The United Nations relief chief today underlined the enormity of the humanitarian challenges facing South Sudan on the first day of her three-day visit to the fledgling country, highlighting the needs of returnees, an influx of refugees, internal displacement as a result of ethnic conflict and endemic poverty.

Crowds outside the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince after elections in 2011.

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the murder of Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi and called for measures to improve the safety of media workers in the country.

Ugandan traders complain of beatings and arbitrary arrest

Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. UN Photo/Fardin Waezi

Papua has witnessed a low-level separatist insurgency since the 1960s

Judge Fatoumata Dembele Diarra, of the International Criminal Court (left) after signing agreement with Foreign Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga of Mali.

Sudanese refugees at a relocation site in South Sudan's Unity State.

Despite improvements resulting from judicial reform in Kosovo, a number of challenges still affect independent functioning of the justice system, concludes the report by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo presented today.

The Internet should remain an open and public forum for freedom of expression for their citizens, in line with OSCE commitments and international standards of media freedom.