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For many Iraqis who fled ISIL to the high altitude region of northern Kurdistan, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, sudden changes in temperatures have left them entirely dependent on humanitarian agencies.

The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water source for their cattle.

UK's victims and witnesses will be given more support than ever before with double the number of courtroom experts soon to be available to help them give evidence, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced on February 23, 2015.

The recruitment and use of children in armed forces and groups is a grave violation of international law.

“Georgia has made a good deal of progress in reducing pre-trial detention. Given the general improvement, I was surprised to learn that such a large number of senior representatives of the previous government, currently in opposition, have been kept in detention, some of them in deep isolation, despite the presumption of innocence,” said Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “abuse of pretrial detention in Council of Europe member states”, speaking at the end of a fact-finding visit to Tbilisi.

Two rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) dealing with migration have welcomed the announcement by the European Commission of additional measures to address the critical situation of mass arrivals of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.

People have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy when it comes to their genetic material, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues in an amicus brief filed this week with the Supreme Court of the United States.

UNICEF condemns in the strongest terms the abduction of scores of boys, some as young 13, by an armed group near Malakal in the north of South Sudan.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban presents his annual state-of-the-nation speech in Budapest, February 22, 2013. The text reads: Hungary doing better.