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China’s authorities should suspend plans to demolish residences at a historic Buddhist monastery in Sichuan province and negotiate with the community’s leadership, Human Rights Watch said on June 9. The government plans to eliminate quarters for all but 5,000 monks, nuns, and laypeople at the Academy of Larung Gar, one of the world’s largest monastic institutions, by September 2017, cutting numbers there by at least half.

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A 12-year-old boy crushes stones at Homase processing site, Amansie Central district, Ashanti Region, Ghana.

The United States should make the need for progress on key human rights issues in China a top priority in the final US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED) for the Obama administration, Human Rights Watch said on 5 June. The talks, involving more than a dozen agencies from each government, will be held in Beijing from June 6-8, 2016.

On 1 June 2016, UNICEF goodwill ambassador Ricky Martin plays football with Syrian refugee children at Al-Hissa informal refugee settlement in northern Lebanon.

As the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza entered its 50th year, Human Rights Watch called on JUNE 5 on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to open a formal investigation into serious international crimes committed in Palestine by Israelis and Palestinians.

Children at the protection of civilians (POC) site in Malakal town, South Sudan.

A submunition or "skeet" from a BLU-108 canister from a CBU-105 Senor Fuzed Weapon found by the main road between Sanaa and Saada, about 250 meters south of the al-Amar village on May 16, 2015.

The parties to the conflict in Yemen should release captured children and make a commitment to not re-enlist child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said on June 2. Parties on all sides of the conflict have used child soldiers, who are an estimated one-third of the fighters in Yemen.