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Striking students are marching through Hong Kong as part of a week-long effort to demand China allow free elections in 2017.

Asylum applications in the EU were up by some 100,000 in 2013 compared to the year before, while at least 600 people are believed to have died while trying to reach Europe via maritime routes. MEPs will discuss the latest developments on 24 September when the European Commission presents the latest annual report on immigration and asylum to the civil liberties committee.

Tens of thousands of children under the age of five remain at risk of malnutrition-related death in South Sudan, despite temporary improvements in the food security situation that were released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) group of experts.

As the first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples concluded in New York, UNICEF said the commitment to children’s rights in the outcome document signified a major step forward for indigenous children.

Both government forces and Maoist combatants raped and sexually harassed women and girls during Nepal’s decade-long armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report published.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should call on Sudan to account immediately for the death or injury of hundreds of largely peaceful protesters at the hands of government security forces in September 2013. Security forces opened fire on protesters in a wave of protests that began on September 23, 2013, following a speech by President Omar al-Bashir announcing an end to fuel subsidies.

A woman of Quechua ancestry in the mining town iof Llallagua, in the Bolivian department of Potosí. After the collapse of tin prices in the early 1980's, mining towns have fallen into decay, their population has diminished and mostly the elderly remain.

Syrian refugees are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, but others are not so fortunate.

The Belgian authorities’ arrest of a Liberian for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s first civil war is a major advance for justice. It is the first arrest for crimes that violate international law committed during the conflict in Liberia from 1989 to 1996, which left tens of thousands dead.