NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Politics
Photo:In mid-June, six buses carrying more than 387 people departed Dadaab camp in North-eastern Kenya travelled into Somalia. UNHCR assists returning refugees with cash grants, core relief items, food and other community-based support programs.
Photo:Displaced children continue to smile despite toughest times at IDPs site in the fractured city of Bambari showing glimmers of hope for a peaceful future in the midst of conflict.
Photo:A young girl displaced due to on-going hostilities in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Photo:Afghans who returned to their village in Deh Sabz from Pakistan, receive food supplies of fortified wheat flour, pulses, vegetable oil and salt from WFP.
Photo:Widows in Qamishly, Syria, speak with a WFP programme officer at a food distribution centre. The majority of the women at the centre have been displaced multiple times because of conflict, often fleeing with nothing.
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Philippine President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte took a break last week from his abusive “war on drugs” to invite human rights advocates to dinner – which I’ll accept as a personal invitation.
Photo:Men recently deported from the US wait in line to be registered with Mexican authorities at the border in Nogales, Mexico.
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Photo:Head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovsky celebrates Donald Trump's election as president by drinking sparkling wine with other party members during a break in the session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia, November 9, 2016.
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier believes Turkey is at a “crossroads.” “Which direction will the country go?” he asked the German parliament last week. “Towards a firm democracy with a respected parliamentary opposition, or away from this approach?”