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Palestinian refugees living in active conflict areas in Syria such as Yarmouk, Khan Eshieh and the Dera’a surroundings, face brutal hardships.

On 28 April, Akriti Tamang, 8, stands amid the ruins of her home, in Sangachowk Village in Sindhupalchowk District, one of the areas worst affected by the massive earthquake

Representatives of the KTU’s (Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union) Seoul branch protest a new government sex education policy which fails to include homosexuality or sexual minorities.

Rescue workers transport one of the bodies found at an abandoned camp in Thailand's southern Songkhla province on May 1, 2015.

Members of French Army (Operation Sangaris) inspecting rockets stored in Camp de Roux, Central African Republic.

Officials from the internationally recognized Libyan government said in a statement on April 29, 2015, that two Tunisian journalists who had been missing in eastern Libya since September 2014 had been killed.

Mothers line up to register their children in Rwanda after fleeing their native Burundi.

Cambodia’s refusal to allow asylum seekers from Vietnam to register and seek refugee status demonstrates a dismal failing to abide by international refugee law, LICADHO and Human Rights Watch said on May 1. In the last four months, Cambodia has forcibly deported 54 Vietnamese asylum seekers, and appears poised to deport 40 more.