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Best international practices and national approaches in measuring poverty were the focus of the international conference held in Dushanbe on December 12. The conference was hosted by the Ministry of Economic Development of Tajikistan in partnership with the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Tajikistan, and the World Bank, as members of the Council for Poverty and Middle Class Measurement.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined dozens of civil society groups from around the world in calling for the release of the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a massive proposed trade agreement that could quash digital rights for Internet users everywhere in the name of intellectual property protection.

Iraq’s prime minister should order stays of execution for one rival of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and an associate of another. The death sentences were handed down after trials in which both defendants alleged they had been subjected to torture and denied access to lawyers during interrogation, highlighting Iraq’s urgent need for judicial reform.

The future for a generation of children in South Sudan is being stolen by the year-long conflict in the country, which has driven hundreds of thousands of children from their homes, schools and communities; subjecting them to violence, malnutrition and disease, the UNICEF said on 12 December.

Kenya's General Service Unit (GSU) policemen watch over youths protesting the killing of Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, August 31, 2012.

Thousands took part in the march down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 13, 2014.

The Obama administration should increase detainee transfers from Guantanamo Bay following passage of a defense bill on December 12, 2014, that preserves fewer transfer restrictions. President Barack Obama obtained loosened transfer restrictions from the US Congress in the December 2013 defense measure, but has not fully taken advantage of them in the past year.

Residents of the village of Modmoday, 40 kilometres east of the town of Baidoa, Somalia, look on as a soldier of the Somali National Army (SNA) keeps guard.

An altar boy prepares for mass at a church in Boali where a large group of Muslims who fled attacks by anti-balaka militias was sheltering. Central African Republic, January 2014.