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Fleeing insecurity

With doctors fleeing and healthcare facilities under attack, many Syrians have had to rely on makeshift clinics, like this one in Atme camp for displaced people in northern Syria.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. General Assembly Vice President Ken Kanda is at right.

crank bicycle to move around her village. After 20 years of displacement and war in northern Uganda, women with disabilities - physical, sensory, mental and intellectual - face an even more complex and grueling process of return and relocation than their neighbors. They experience stigma and sexual violence and are often denied access to health care and justice.

A wave of inspections of nongovernmental organizations in Russia is intensifying pressure on civil society since the adoption of a series of restrictive laws in 2012.

A Palestinian child.

The Asian Human Rights Commission has been following with concern news of the latest outbreak of communal violence in Burma. Although the circumstances of how the violence began are clouded, the president on 22 March 2013 declared an indefinite state of emergency over four townships of Mandalay Region--Meikhtila, Wundwin, Mahlaing and Thazi--after the imposition of an order under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code on March 20 to shut down businesses until the situation improved failed to quell growing conflict that has officially left eleven people dead. Eyewitness accounts put the number of dead possibly in the dozens, with many people besides injured.

The government of Zimbabwe should immediately end the police crackdown on civil society groups, which has intensified as the country prepares for national elections.