UN rights expert: Northern Ireland must address past rights violations
Northern Ireland still faces significant challenges 20 years after the violent period known as "the Troubles" , UN Special Rapporteur Pablo de Greiff said Wednesday. The Special Rapporteur focused on transitional justice in Northern Ireland and...
Syrian armed groups may be committing war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday, stating that the practice of caging captured soldiers and civilians constitutes hostage-taking and an outrage against their personal dignity. A video that surfaced...
Ireland government to ask ECHR to review 1978 human rights case
The Minister for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade , Charles Flanagan, announced on Tuesday he will make a request to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to review the judgment...
Northern Ireland will struggle to move forward due to its failure to establish the truth about abuses committed during its civil unrest, Amnesty International (AI) warned in a report published Thursday. The report, entitled "Northern...
UN to begin transferring chemical weapons from Syria for testing
A spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Sunday that the UN chemical weapons inspection team in Syria is set to begin transferring samples that it has collected from the country to the laboratories for...
Syria's main opposition group on Sunday urged the UN to probe numerous massacres they say were committed during Ramadan by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad . The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and...
Philippines begins 150-day gun ban to prevent election violence
The Philippines on Sunday officially began a nationwide 150-day ban on the carrying of firearms in public areas in preparation for congressional and local elections slated for mid-May. Only top-officials, military and police entities will be exempt from the...
Egypt activist group condemns military imprisonment of civilian blogger
The Egypt activist group No Military Trials for for Civilians on Sunday condemned the arrest and imprisonment of Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd el Fattah by the Supreme Council of...
ICC prosecutor has evidence against Gaddafi son for planning civilian attacks
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Sunday that he has evidence against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi for his role in planning attacks on Libyan civilians. According to Ocampo, Saif al-Islam, who remains on...
Interim Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Monday that he has ordered an investigation into the death of former leader Muammar Gaddafi . He said that the National Transition Council has formed...
