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Remnants of a misfired Uragan cluster munition rocket lying in a field in territory controlled by the Ukrainian government near Novomykhailivka, Ukraine on October 14, 2014.

The Bangladeshi government should order an independent investigation and prosecute members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) responsible for a 2011 attack on a child (16) that caused him to lose a leg, Human Rights Watch said. The authorities finally dropped politically motivated charges against the child, Limon Hossain, but have not taken action against his attackers.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should make its upcoming Plenum meeting meaningful by taking steps to address human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. The Plenum, which is to focus on the “rule of law,” will be held in Beijing on October 20-23, 2014.

Kuwaiti authorities have announced the third batch of citizenship revocations this year, during a general crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said. The group of 18 revocations announced on September 29, 2014, which the authorities said was based on a cabinet decision, included one that appeared politically motivated. A total of 33 people have lost their citizenship during 2014, of which three are thought to be for political reasons.

Speaking at the opening of the High-level Conference on the European Social Charter 'Europe restarts in Turin' PACE President Anne Brasseur recalled that social rights must be considered as fundamental human rights, indivisible, interdependent and complementary.

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the state of Texas to enforce its strict new voter identification law in November polls, despite a lower court's ruling that it threatened to block many minorities from casting ballots.

Returned migrants board a bus to Tegucigalpa in front the Center for Returned Migrants, San Pedro Sula airport, Honduras, September 2014.

A Sahrawi refugee camp near Tindouf, Algeria, Tindouf.