![General view of exterior of Germany's Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, March 15, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-germany-eca-court.jpg?itok=mBmJii90)
![General view of exterior of Germany's Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, March 15, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-germany-eca-court.jpg?itok=mBmJii90)
April 27, 2016
When schools and students become spoils of war
Lack of education is a lack of light, it's darkness.
![A lecture theatre at the Federal College of Education, Kano, Kano state, destroyed when Boko Haram insurgents lobbed grenades and shot students taking classes on September 17, 2014. At least 27 students and two lecturers were killed in the attack.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-africa-nigeria-03_0.jpg?itok=gL1DdpkW)
April 27, 2016
Syria: Civilian Deaths Rising as Attacks Resume
Desperate Civilians Sidelined in Hannover Talks
April 27, 2016
Egypt: Fearing Protests, Police Arrest Hundreds
Journalists, Lawyers Among Those Apprehended
![Journalists and activists protest against the restriction of press freedom and to demand the release of detained journalists, in front of the Press Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt on April 26, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2_2_0.jpg?itok=9wavtF7B)
April 27, 2016
Dispatches: EU Deportations Resume, Troubles Abound
![A Frontex officer (L) escorts a deportee onto a boat on the Greek island of Lesbos, April 4, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-greece-turkey-eca-refugees-deportation.jpg?itok=jo4S9G5h)
April 26, 2016
Burma: Drop Charges Against Former Activist Monk
U Gambira Faces 5 Years in Prison on Political Prosecution
![Burma](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016_asia_burma_gambira2.jpg?itok=3ZpUY3pU)
April 26, 2016
Dispatches: Barring Afghan War Crimes Suspects from the US
![Abdul Rashid Dostum talks with his supporters at the Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 6, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-afghanistan-asia-dostum.jpg?itok=y6Mbrxta)
April 26, 2016
Dispatches: Burma’s Rohingya Muslims in Desperate Straits
![A Rohingya girl sits atop a fishing boat on the outskirts of an IDP camp in Sittwe, Arakan State, Burma, September 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-burma-asia-rohingya.jpg?itok=dbneDcFE)
April 26, 2016
UN Committee against Torture: Review of Saudi Arabia
57th Session of the Committee against Torture
![Members of the Saudi advisory Shura Counci](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtr1rcnf_layout_comp.jpg?itok=DcnJ50u1)
April 25, 2016
Transparency Key as Rights Commission Deadline Looms
![United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein meets with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on February 9, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/colombo.jpeg?itok=zMJl5OBE)