Since the late 1970s, private sponsors have brought more than 300,000 refugees to Canada, over and above those resettled with government funding
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A Kyrgyz woman has described how she was drugged and attacked by a group of men after their discovered she was transgender. The first sex-reassigment surgery was performed in Kyrgystan in 2014, and Kyrgyz citizens can now change their legal gender, provided they have undergone surgery
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Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities have charged hundreds of children with terrorism for alleged Islamic State (also known as ISIS) affiliation, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today
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In Zimbabwe, the high cost of bread is forcing citizens to look for alternatives to this basic commodity as food shortages and soaring prices continue to worsen
A hunger strike campaign started by Kurdish politician Leyla Guven is widening as hundreds of demonstrators ask Turkish authorities to improve jail conditions for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan
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