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Israel engaged in discriminatory practices and other rights violations against Palestinians during 2012, while Palestinian authorities committed abuses against their own population, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013.

A delegation from the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee visited the main Zaatari refugee camp on Tuesday. This camp, 12 km from the Syrian border, currently hosts about 70,000 refugees, mostly women and children.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Daryl E. Vonneida, 62, of Dix, New York, was convicted by a federal jury of 14 charges, including production of child pornography, transporting minors in interstate commerce for illegal sexual activity, and possession of child pornography. The defendant, who was previously convicted of sexual abuse in the First Degree in Schuyler County Court, faces a mandatory term of life in prison on four of the charges relating to the production of child pornography and transporting minors in interstate commerce.

Highway 16, sometimes referred to as “the Highway of Tears” in recognition of the women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in its vicinity, in northern British Columbia. July 2012.

The UNHCR warehouse in Bambari in the Central African Republic which contained relief supplies for refugees and IDPs was looted by armed men.

Legislators in India should substantially amend or replace the new criminal law on violence against women in the forthcoming budget session of the parliament, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. On February 3, 2013, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee signed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013, amending criminal laws, over protests from human rights and women’s rights groups across the country.

Syria should urgently agree that humanitarian aid may be brought into the country across all of its borders, including from Turkey. Syria’s allies, including Russia, should press Syria to consent to such transfers, Human Rights Watch said. Donors should not wait for Syria’s go-ahead, but instead should immediately expand support to non-governmental organizations already able to deliver aid from Turkey into opposition-held areas of Syria.

Health workers vaccinating children against polio in Nigeria.

Human rights conditions deteriorated in Kuwait in 2012 during an ongoing political crisis, Human Rights Watch said today at a news conference for its World Report 2013. The security forces used what appeared to be excessive force to disperse stateless bidun residents and anti-government demonstrators on multiple occasions, and authorities briefly banned protests in October.

A Palestinian child.