Politics

Photo:Toddlers sit on the top step and their grandmother stands on a landing, inside their partially destroyed home in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Photo:Demonstration outside Parliament on December 6, 2016, with women in white dresses and wrapped in bandages, calling for the repeal of article 522 of the penal code.

Photo:Two soldiers from forces operating under Libya’s Tripoli-based government walking through the deserted streets of Bin Jawad, near the important oil port of Sidra.

Photo:Halamish, an Israeli settlement, stands in the northern West Bank, near the Palestinian village of Nabih Saleh.

Photo:WHO partners in Syria vaccinate children who have fled eastern Aleppo – in this case to Jibreen, rural Aleppo. Prior to the crisis, Syria had one of the highest vaccination rates in the Middle East. Now, half of all children are missing out on life-saving vaccines.

Photo:Residents of the Thet Kae Pyin camp for displaced people in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Photo:On 26 October 2016, children associated with the Cobra faction wait to be demobilized in Pibor, South Sudan. A total of 145 children from the Cobra Faction and SPLA-IO were disarmed and released by the two armed groups.

Photo:Protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 2, 2016.

DECEMBER 13, 2016
Ohio Governor John Kasich just signed into law a bill restricting a woman’s right to abortion in Ohio.