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The Nepali government should revoke its new ban on women under the age of 30 from working in Arab Gulf countries and instead should improve protections so domestic workers can migrate safely – such as by ensuring full monitoring and accountability of recruitment agencies in Nepal.

The global campaign that aims to make social media history by attempting to reach one billion people on 19 August to celebrate World Humanitarian Day has passed its first milestone – the 100 million mark.

A Roma family prepares to leave a camp in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern France, to go to Lille Airport for their flight to Romania on a voluntary repatriation scheme on September 16, 2010.

The United States is pursuing every available avenue, including focused diplomatic efforts, to secure full and unfettered access for humanitarian organizations to reach, and provide humanitarian assistance to the innocent children, women, and men caught in the middle of the ongoing Syrian conflict. Today in Istanbul, Secretary Clinton announced the United States is providing an additional $5.5 million in humanitarian assistance bringing the total U.S. contribution for this crisis to nearly $82 million. This latest tranche of U.S. assistance is targeted toward communities who have sought refuge in Turkey.

UNHCR’s Representative in Jordan, Andrew Harper shows UK Secretary of State for International Development the system set up to ensure that Syrian refugees are provided with the proper assistance.

A Cakchiquel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Guatemala.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus.

The high prevalence of physical abuse is causing long-term damage to the lives of far too many children in East Asia and the Pacific, warns a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern about draft legislation currently being considered by Liberian lawmakers that would broadly criminalize homosexual behaviour, adding that it will negatively impact vulnerable populations in the country.

WFP food assistance being offloaded from a truck at a distribution site in the South Kordofan capital Kadugli.