UN rights official urges DR Congo to prosecute persons harming aid workers
A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to do more to protect human rights workers in the country, and to prosecute those...
Rights group urges Uganda to end torture and illegal arrests
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Uganda to end what it said was the use of torture and unlawful arrest by the country's Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force (JATT). According to HRW, JATT...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged participants in the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to respect human rights and...
ICC prosecutor urges arrest of Uganda war crimes suspect after new attacks
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday renewed his call for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader and war crimes suspect Joseph Kony after new...
Uganda war crimes court will only hear Lord's Resistance Army cases: judge
The High Court of Uganda will not try soldiers from the Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) if they are accused of human rights abuses, according to Wednesday statements by Justice Dan Akiiki-Kiiza , the head of...
UK Law Lords deny appeal of alleged hacker set for extradition to US
UK House of Lords judges Wednesday denied the appeal of a man accused of hacking US government computers in 2001 and 2002 who had argued that his extradition to the US would...
JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the recent creation of a Ugandan war crimes court to deal with alleged war crimes committed by the Lord's Resistance Army is not a challenge...
Uganda establishes special war crimes court to try LRA rebels
Uganda has established a special court to hear cases of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses related to an ongoing rebellion in the country , a High Court judge said Monday. Uganda's government...
ICC investigating new Uganda attacks by Lord's Resistance Army
Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army...
Internecine conflict among factions of the rebel Lords Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda has killed a rebel commander wanted by International Criminal Court prosecutors, according to sources speaking to Reuters...
