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Cali, Jun 8 (EFE).- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights began Tuesday its review of the situation in Colombia after a month and a half of protests marked by serious complaints against the public force, vandalism and delicate acts of violence between armed civilians and police. (Camera: ERNESTO GUZMAN JR). B-ROLL OF THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN CALI, COLOMBIA.
People with albinism strutted their stuff in a beauty pageant held in Nairobi, with the aim of building confidence and raising awareness about discrimination and human rights violations of people with the condition.
A human skeleton was found buried in a military facility near Uruguay's capital Montevideo, less than 100 metres from where remains of victims of the South American country's dictatorship (1973-1985) have been found in recent years. IMAGES
In Geneva, a special session of the UN Human Rights Council opens to discuss the situation in Sudan. More than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced in the fighting that began on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk condemns "this wanton violence, in which both sides have trampled international humanitarian law, notably the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution". IMAGES
Dozens of migrants camp at the US-Mexico Border in Tijuana as they wait for the expiration of the so-called Title 42, a strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants and expel asylum seekers based on the Covid pandemic emergency. President Biden's administration is officially lifting Title 42 on May 11. IMAGES