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Women and children wait for assistance from the drought/famine in Dolo, southern Somalia.

A view of Ankaka, the Turkish capital, 11 August 2009.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) held a press conference for the presentation of the English status report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights last December. President Ma, vice president Wu, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and other heads of governmental organizations together with diplomatic envoys and medias presented at the conference.

Sankore mosque in Mali’s fabled city of Timbuktu.

In Diabaly, Mali, citizens tell of two Tuareg families who were forced to flee their village and are now hiding in the town.

Hassan, 4, walks through a makeshift tented community in Lebanon's Beka'a valley that has become home to families who have fled the conflict in neighboring Syria.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the abduction of four human rights defenders in broad daylight by persons said to be from an outlawed religious organization. The unknown armed persons abducted six workers of a NGO including, two lady workers. However, after some time they threw the two women out of the vehicle and took away four persons including the car of the HAND’s NGO.

Dalit Women on the outskirts of Chakrapanpur Village, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh, display job cards.

Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed

The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is marked by acutely low humanitarian indicators: every day 165 children under 5 lose their lives and a pregnant woman dies every 2 hours.