Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council to take action
after at least 35 people were reported to have been killed in northern
Sri Lanka in an attack on a
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
Seven members of the Colombian army unit which is alleged to have
killed the husband of an Indigenous leader have been detained,
according to media reports.
The Israel Defense Forces' probe has concluded that it committed no human rights violations and made only rare mistakes, some of which may have resulted in the killing
There can be no stability and security for the people of Chechnya, until those responsible for gross human rights abuses in the country over the last 10 years are brou
Around 100,000 desperate civilians still trapped in the conflict zone, require urgent humanitarian aid as reports emerge
that food and medical supplies are running lo
Four men arrested in recent days in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
have apparently been forcibly disappeared by police, leading to fears
that they may have been t
Three senior leaders of the Sierra Leone rebel group, the Revolutionary
United Front, were sentenced to long prison terms by the Special
Court for Sierra Leone on We
