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A domestic worker holds up her UK Overseas Domestic Worker visa. Following changes to the immigration rules in April 2012, workers entering the UK on this visa are not permitted to change employer, making them more vulnerable to abuse.

Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces should immediately end attacks on teachers and other civilians, Human Rights Watch said. Since January 2014, insurgents have killed three ethnic Thai Buddhist teachers in the conflict-ridden region.

A month after the adoption of Security Council resolution 2139, assessments show that progress on humanitarian access in Syria has been very limited.

Military men who are targets of frightening and threatening sexual harassment may experience more distress and work performance problems than military women who face the same treatment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Advancing women’s rights: a community-based educator addresses a health shura for mothers.

Human beings, however poor or however oppressed, seek justice in the same way. Even a tuberculosis patient looks for fresh air. All wisdom traditions have associated justice as having the same character as fresh air. To deny justice is to deny a fundamental condition of being human.

Russia’s State Duma should reject a draft law to ban publishing negative information about the Russian government and military. The government should put a decisive end to its relentless crackdown on free expression.

The sponsors of a discriminatory and stigmatizing draft bill to curtail lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights should withdraw it from Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, Human Rights Watch said. Such a law would infringe on freedom of expression, association, and assembly rights, and discriminate against Kyrgyzstan’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Muslims wait to be evacuated in the PK12 neighborhood after they fled attacks by anti-balaka forces. The minority Muslim population in the Central African Republic is being targeted by Christian anti-balaka militias in a relentless wave of coordinated violence that is forcing entire communities to leave the country. January 23, 2014.