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ISIL unlawful ‘shari’a courts’ meting out ‘monstrous’ punishments, UN warns

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Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic...

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Children suffering ‘dire consequences’ of conflict in northern Nigeria – UN agency

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Children at a primary school in the town of Toro, Bauchi State, Nigeria.

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OSCE/ODIHR opens election observation mission for parliamentary elections in Tajikistan

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened an election observation mission (EOM) for the 1 March parliamentary elections in the Republic of Tajikistan on January 20. The mission’s deployment follows an...

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Security vs civil liberties: the impact of the Paris terrorist attacks

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Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, chair of the subcommittee on security and defence; and Claude Moraes,...

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