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Human Rights
The week in pictures
From protests in Brazil to a bomb blast in Pakistan, here is this week’s news in photos.
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (right) films a Syrian refugee woman playing a piano near a makeshift camp in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border. [Stoyan Nenov/Reuters]
Published On 18 Mar 2016
18 Mar 2016
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At least 27 people were killed and 75 wounded in an car bomb explosion in the Turkish capital Ankara on March 13. [Elif Sogut/Getty Images]
Six gunmen opened fire on civilians at an Ivory Coast beach resort on March 13, killing at least 16 people. Pictured here, a dead attacker and his utility belt. [Joe Penney/Reuters]
Refugees try to cross a river after leaving the Idomeni camp in northern Greece. Humanitarian workers have described the conditions at the camp as desperate, made much worse by recent bouts of heavy rain. [Matt Cardy/Getty Images]
Boys watch the burial of 10-year-old Palestinian Yassin Abu Khoussa, who was killed by fragments from a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza Strip on March 12. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
Demonstrators attend a mass protest in Sao Paulo against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, calling for her impeachment. [Paulo Whitaker/Reuters]
Pakistani police and rescue personnel search a bus damaged in a bomb blast in Peshawar. A bomb planted on a bus carrying government officials exploded in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]
Damaged buildings as seen from the rebel-held Qaboun neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters]
North Korea's highest court sentenced 21-year-old American tourist Otto Frederick Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour in prison on Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area of his hotel. [Kyodo/Reuters]