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War crimes suspects entering or residing in the UK are often immune from prosecution for their acts, according to a report released Monday by Aegis Trust . The report refers to a "significant number" of alleged...

The government of Sri Lanka has failed for the past two decades to redress alleged human-rights violations such as torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the government of Sri Lanka to conduct a "proper investigation" of any "credible allegations of violations of humanitarian law" arising from the recent conflict between...

JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict involving Ethiopia...

Amnesty International (AI) urged the UN Security Council to establish an international body to conduct an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed in Sri Lanka , and to press the Sri Lankan government...

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Sunday dismissed calls from Amnesty International (AI) to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that...

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Wednesday "welcoming the conclusion of hostilities" in Sri Lanka, but failing to call for an investigation into war crimes committed during the conflict. Adopted during the 11th...

Assistance to Sri Lanka in the promotion and protection of human rights, S-11/1, UN Human Rights Council, May 27, 2009 [condemning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for attacks on civilian populations and use of human shields, and acknowledging the...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday rejected calls for his government to provide full humanitarian access to Tamil displacement camps in the country, saying the camps still needed to be screened for rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE)...

The Council of the European Union on Monday called for an independent inquiry into possible war crimes committed during the Sri Lanka civil war. Meeting in Brussels, the General Affairs and External...