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Human traffickers are using a new tactic to combat a change in Italy’s approach to dealing with asylum-seekers, leaving a new wave of refugees, mainly from Syria, abandoned in ships steaming toward shore.

The year 2014 bids us adieu, as the government of Pakistan gears up to set up military court “come what may”. The military machinery at GHQ is at full swing these days a s hurried consultation between the governmnet and the military officials take place over amendments in the constitution to pave way for the arbitrary military courts .

Children in Juba, South Sudan.

On the second anniversary of a rebellion that plunged the Central African Republic into bloody upheaval, Human Rights Watch Tuesday released a multimedia feature on several research missions undertaken in the Central African Republic in 2014.

The streets of Sirte were the most heavily damaged after a nine-month war in 2011.

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan.

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia should create a joint fact-finding team to ensure a credible, impartial investigation into the December 8, 2014 deadly shootings in the remote town of Enarotali in Papua, Human Rights Watch said on December 24. The team should include the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the military, as well as the police, to investigate the incident, in which at least five peaceful protesters died of gunshot wounds.

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Miklós Haraszti.

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia should create a joint fact-finding team to ensure a credible, impartial investigation into the December 8, 2014 deadly shootings in the remote town of Enarotali in Papua, Human Rights Watch said on December 24, 2014. The team should include the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the military, as well as the police, to investigate the incident, in which at least five peaceful protesters died of gunshot wounds.

Russian authorities have failed to investigate strong evidence that at least 12 of the defendants convicted on December 23, 2014, on mass terrorism charges had been tortured and their coerced confessions used as evidence, Human Rights Watch said on December 24, 2014. A court in Nalchik sentenced most of the 12 to lengthy prison terms, including Rasul Kudaev, a former Guantanamo detainee, to life in prison, and Batyr Pshybiev to 18 years.