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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addresses the Human Rights Council

Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo

Photo: Erica Silverman/IRIN
Palestinians buying traditional Ramadan sweets in Ramallah before ‘iftar’ (the daily meal that breaks the fast)

Raymond Vigil was arrested in Denver Colorado by the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Location Apprehension Group Task Force. Investigators believe Vigil had been living in the Denver, CO area since he had absconded 1 ½ years ago. Federal charges under the Adam Walsh act for fail to register as a sex offender are pending from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado.

Thousands displaced by the drought in Somalia are seeking shelter in the capital Mogadishu

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Many Palestinian refugees in Syria live in sprawling, under-serviced camps

Southern Kordofan residents outside UNMIS Kadugli compound after fleeing fighting that erupted in June 2011

Dr. Jill Biden and the US officials who joined her on a trip to a refugee center in Kenya want the American people to understand how severe the crisis caused by a combination of drought, famine and war has become, especially on the most vulnerable population, the children of Somalia.

Parents wait with their malnourished and dehydrated children in a corridor at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu