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Video Human Rights Film Festival Highlights Gender, Economic Issues

Twenty new films from around the world are screening in New York this week, as part of the 24th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival, co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center. The issues explored range from the rights of women, gays and the disabled, to economic justice, to political murder, torture and wrongful imprisonment. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver reports from New York.
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Riot police take position and fire tear gas at protesters gathering near Castelao stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, June 19, 2013.

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A demonstrator jumps over trash set afire during protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 18, 2013.

Brazil Sends Federal Police to Suppress Protests

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London, February 2, 2012.

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A Syrian family walks past a blast site in the town of Reyhanli of Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 12, 2013.

Global Forced Displacement at 18-Year High

UNHCR says more than 45.2 million people were displaced in 2012 compared to 42.5 million in 2011
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Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted poster for alleged child sex predator Walter Lee Williams, following a press conference to announce the FBI's 499th and 500th additions to the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list on June 17, 2013 at the Newseum in Washi

'Most Wanted' US Fugitive Arrested in Mexico

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Protesters gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 18, 2013.

Brazil President Rousseff Salutes Protests

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