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Activists in Cairo protesting against police brutality.

Reports that the United Kingdom’s intelligence agency has intercepted and collected vast amounts of Internet and phone data raise serious concerns that the government has breached the privacy rights of millions of people in the UK and elsewhere.

Opposition supporters flee Conakry’s main stadium on September 28, 2009, after security forces stormed and opened fire on rally participants.

Children in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have seen steady and positive reforms in children's rights but still face huge barriers in accessing justice, according to a new European Union-UNICEF report launched at a conference on justice for children in Brussels.

Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed opening the Vienna+20 Conference.

L-r: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek, speaking with an interpreter and a local resident at Khurvaleti village by the administrative boundary line with South Ossetia, 20 July 2013.

The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, opens a session on media freedom at the OSCE's Review Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 7 October 2010.

United States president Barack Obama should use his visit to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, beginning June 26, 2013, to support besieged media outlets and independent groups across the African continent, Human Rights Watch said.