Photo:Waiting for their ferry departure from Lesvos, this family of Syrian refugees is being relocated to a camp in Larissa, as part of an effort by UNHCR to transfer vulnerable asylum-seekers from the islands to mainland Greece, where better living conditions are available.
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Photo:Body of a Somali refugee, killed in an attack by a helicopter while travelling in a vessel off the coast of Yemen, is carried at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen, March 17, 2017.
Photo:Police vans on Tverskaya Street, March 25, 2017.
MARCH 26, 2017
Anticorruption protests took place in dozens of cities across Russia yesterday, the most significant outpouring of public discontent since the 2011-2012 anti-Kremlin protests.
Photo:Lebanese security forces block a street leading to the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon September 9, 2015.
Photo:A 15-year-old girl from Nana-Grébizi province, who has not attended school since 2013. “I want to be a teacher because they are important for the community and because they are respected,” she told Human Rights Watch. “But now, I don’t know what I can do, I just stay at home all day.”
Photo:Children in a newly built clinic in Musan County, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), are checked for malnutrition and given vaccines, Vitamin A and deworming tablets.
Photo:Civilians walk along Tripoli Street in Misrata, Libya.
Photo:In Mosul, Iraq, aging family members are pushed for hours through frontline fighting between the army and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh), to reach safety.
Photo:Students and teachers from around the world call for schools and universities to be protected from military use.
Photo:Photographs of members of parliament from the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) displayed in the general assembly of Turkey’s parliament after the MPs were detained and jailed in November 2016
MARCH 20, 2017