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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and acclaimed actor Danny Glover joined children for a friendly game of dodge ball in Sarajevo in a show of active support of the “It’s About Ability” campaign to promote inclusion for children with disabilities.

Returning to New York after a two-day joint visit with international NGO representatives to Colombia, OCHA Operations Director John Ging said that while the humanitarian situation had improved greatly, there was still more to be done.

Jean-Marie Bockel (France, EPP/CD), who is preparing a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on international assistance for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, begins a fact-finding visit to Turkey (21 to 22 August 2013), following on from a visit to Lebanon (19-20 August).

The South Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) has allocated US$33 million for life-saving assistance until the end of the year to people displaced by violence, returnees, refugees and vulnerable host communities. The money will enable people to receive: clean water and sanitation, education, livelihoods support, healthcare, household items, nutrition, mine clearance and protection. The money will also pay for key logistics and emergency telecommunications in deep field locations.

Undocumented Rohingya Muslim immigrants gather at the Immigration Detention Center during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand on July 10, 2013.

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Syrians who fled across the Peshkhabour border into Kurdistan in northern Iraq walk towards a makeshift reception centre.

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Egyptian security forces’ rapid and massive use of lethal force to disperse sit-ins on August 14, 2013 led to the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.

The shocking detention of David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, a journalist at the Guardian, at London’s Heathrow airport on August 18, 2013, appears aimed at punishing or intimidating journalists, Human Rights Watch said.