1129 GMT October 18, 2021
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It can be months or even years before the thousands of migrants waiting in camps on Greek islands or on the mainland finally receive the prize they crave: Asylum.
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Thousands of people continue to be killed and injured every year by landmines and explosive weapons in conflicts around the world, while the COVID-19 pandemic has forced mine-clearance efforts to be scaled back, a UN-backed civil society report on the issue said.
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Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration.
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Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are among new technologies flagged as “troubling” in a UN report.
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The most vulnerable children are being "failed by the state" and a broken residential care system, the children's commissioner for England has said.
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Major powers, including allies, criticized the United States for its human rights record during a UN review, citing the use of the death penalty, police violence against African-Americans and the separation of migrant children from their families.
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The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw was the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan’s central Ghazni Province, shooting at her and stabbing her with a knife in the eyes.
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Abdelaziz al-Hassan did not want to live in an overcrowded camp after fleeing war in northwestern Syria, so instead his family pitched a tent in the ruins of a Roman temple.
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By Amrit Dhillon
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More than 1,600 African migrants were rescued at sea or reached Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend, Spanish emergency services said.
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