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From file: Iraqi Yazidis photographed during their escape to Turkey, 2014 | Photo: picture-alliance
A mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group in the northern Iraq | Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty Images
Iran has been hit by the biggest wave of protests since becoming an Islamic republic in 1979 | Photo: Salam Pix/abaca/picture-alliance
Only 33 countries in the world allow same-sex marriage | Photo: picture-alliance/AP Photos
From file: Police officers accompany a deportee into an airplane | Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said people should not be forced to hide their sexual identity to avoid punishment | Photo: Markus Schreiber/AP/picture-alliance
Protests have swept across Iran following Amini's death | Photo: user generated content
Yazidi migrants waiting to enter the migrant camp near Serres in northern Greece | Source: Screenshot Twitter @Yazidinews_En
Afghan women protest against the threat of sexual violence | Photo: picture-alliance/AA/P. Sabawoon
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said that Ukrainians will 'always' receive a warm welcome | Photo: ANSA
These Afghan women and children fled from violence in their home provinces to Kabul | Photo: Jorge Silva / REUTERS
The arrival in Italy of the first 82 Afghan civilian collaborators and their respective families, Fiumicino (Rome), June 14, 2021 | Photo: ANSA/DEFENCE MINISTRY PRESS OFFICE