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As the world marks Universal Children’s Day - the anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - UNICEF is urging a much stronger light be shone on the millions of children in every country and at every level of society who are victims of violence and abuse that continue to go unnoticed and under-reported.

The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease, Human Rights Watch said in a report released. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 people and sickened 100,000 more, the conditions that allowed the epidemic to flourish persist in Harare’s high-density suburbs.

At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.

Militias from Misrata fired assault rifles, machine guns, and heavy weapons at overwhelmingly peaceful protesters in Tripoli on November 15, killing several people. Ensuing clashes between armed groups and militias left 43 people dead and at least 460 wounded. State security forces present at the initial protest apparently failed to protect protesters or to arrest and disarm the militias.

Will New York State be a leader on energy issues or revert to short-sighted, reactive policies? That’s what a group of elected officials and concerned ratepayers asked Governor Andrew Cuomo and regulators at the Public Service Commission (PSC) in a visit to the state Capitol.

Promoting tolerance through education all over the OSCE region is one of the priorities of the Ukrainian Chairmanship. A work of a school student participating in an OSCE-supported anti-discrimination event, Tirana, 11 April 2011.nship.

A safer environment needed for girls and women.

Emergency broadcasts were launched on 14 November.

Libyan women participate in a demonstration in Tripoli calling for the disarming of armed groups.

Pakistan’s government should ensure that its proposed National Refugee Law meets international standards for the protection of refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said. Pakistan has hosted 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees for more than 30 years, while another 1 million remain unregistered.