Head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) Augustine Mahiga on Friday welcomed the signing of the joint communique ending the country's transitional governing arrangement. During the meeting in Nairobi...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville on Friday expressed his concern over the continued attacks on churches in Nigeria which have killed more than 100 people, citing possible crimes...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday that the treaty body system is in crisis and called on the international community to strengthen it. In her report , she revealed that...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Thursday convicted former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) member Eric Senessie on eight of nine counts for witness tampering. Four counts alleged that he had...
The Serbian war crimes prosecutor announced on Friday that his office is investigating suspects accused of helping former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic and former security official Stojan Zupljanin ...
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission Catherine Ashton on Thursday condemned Iran for its treatment of minorities and called on the...
The UK High Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that retaining photographs and other materials of an innocent suspect should be prohibited. The two-judge panel in London's High Court held that the current policy of...
The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament on Thursday rejected the proposed Anti-Countefeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in a vote of 19-12 vote. The ACTA's goal is to counter intellectual property theft,...
A former army chief of staff and ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday accused the president of having ordered the killing of his preceding president, Juvenal Habyarimana . During his testimony in a Johannesburg...
UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai on Thursday called on the international community to protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association . In a report to the UN Human Rights Council [official...
