UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Friday for an investigation of the previous day's aerial bombing of a refugee camp in Unity State in South Sudan. Refugees in the camp claimed to...
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An internal UN conflict was publicized Friday concerning a dispute between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the judges he appointed to his employee rights safeguards tribunals. Just over two years after Ban instituted...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court not to hear Arizona's appeal of a decision enjoining four provisions of the state's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials;...
Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj went on trial on Friday for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia . Limaj allegedly ordered two captured Serb policemen executed and tortured another...
Syrian governmental forces have been committing crimes against humanity , including torture and unlawful killings of anti-government protesters in Homs, Syria , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Friday. According to...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday that his office would prosecute individuals involved election violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC is expected to hold presidential...
Prosecutors at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) urged the judge Friday to wait to commence the trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members indicted for killing former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [BBC...
A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a "kill team" in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of...
The Ugandan High Court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for beating to death prominent gay rights activist David Kato. Enock Nsubuga confessed to the January 2011 killing, admitting to beating Kato [Reuters...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the Tunisian government not to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi , warning that he would be "at a real risk for torture"...
