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A US statement on compliance with the Convention against Torture on November 12, 2014, improves on previous US positions on the treaty’s application but falls short of international obligations, Human Rights Watch said. The US is appearing for its regular review before the United Nations Committee Against Torture on November 12-13 in Geneva.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife Yoo Soon-taek arrive for the opening of the 6th Annual ASEAN-UN Summit in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

A European Union court says EU countries can refuse unemployment benefits to immigrants who come solely for the benefits and make no effort to find work.

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda briefs the UN Security Council on the situation in Libya on May 13, 2014.

A senior Hong Kong official is warning protesters they face arrest if they do not clear the streets, where they have been camped out for weeks demanding democratic reforms.

People displaced by the fighting between Seleka and anti-balaka forces take shelter in an old factory on the grounds of the Catholic church in Bossangoa.

The International Contact Group for the Central African Republic, due to meet on November 11, 2014, should publicly call for an end to the sectarian violence, Human Rights Watch said. The group, meeting for the first time in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, should remind all armed actors that those responsible for grave human rights abuses will be held to account.

The death sentence against Muhammed Kamaruzzman, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, should immediately be stayed. Kamaruzzman should be granted a right to appeal against the death sentence.

With reference to the latest reporting of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission regarding shelling and its victims in Donetsk and the appearance of convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in territory controlled by illegally armed groups, Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office said he was very concerned about a resurgence of violence in the eastern regions of Ukraine and about activities leading to more fragility instead of further stabilization of the situation.