• UK creates team to investigate mass rape as weapon of war

    May 29

    The UK is to set up a rapid action team, aimed at collecting evidence of mass rape in conflict zones when it is used as a weapon of war, reports The Guardian newspaper on Tuesday.

    See here for full article.

  • Houla deaths were 'summary executions' says UN official

    The spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva, Rupert Colville, said that a "substantial part" of the killings in Houla, Syria, were "summary executions" on Tuesday.

    Colville said,

    "At this point, it looks like entire families were shot in their houses."

  • Criticism as Mugabe appointed UN “leader for tourism”
    The UN’s World Tourism Organisation has caused uproar at its move to honour controversial Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a “leader for tourism”, reported the Guardian.
  • Charles Taylor jailed for 50 years

    For the first time since the Nuremberg trials, a former head of state has been convicted by an international war crimes tribunal, as Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment by judges at The Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague.

  • Syria to face UN questioning over the Houla massacre

    The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the situation in Syria this Friday announced UN officials.

  • Syrian diplomats expelled in international response to Houla massacre
    Syrian diplomats have been expelled from embassies across the world in protest at the massacre of Houla, as international pressure on President Assad’s regime intensifies.
  • Tibetan immolations spread to capital for first time
    Twin self-immolations occurred in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa over the weekend, the first time in the city, as Tibetan unrest under Chinese rule continues to grow.
  • Russia warns US over Iran sanctions

    Russia has warned the US of ‘severe repercussions’ on ties between the two countries if the recently tightened sanctions on Iran affect Russian businesses in the country.

    "We assume that (Russian) companies which do violate the restrictions imposed by the UN Security Council (on Iran) will not be affected by the anti-Iranian American laws," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

  • Syria reacts angrily to possible Olympic ban
    Syrian officials have slammed the UK after the possibility was raised that members of their Olympic delegation with links to President Assad’s regime would be denied entry for the 2012 Games in London.

    Speaking to the BBC, Mowaffak Joma, chairman of the Syrian Olympic committee stated that the UK “has no right” to deny anyone access to the Games, commenting,
  • Rwandan war crimes trial starts in Canada

    A Rwandan man accused of genocide is due to start trial today in Ottawa.

    39 year old Jacques Mungwarere was arrested in the town of Windsor in 2009.

    The former school teacher is accused of leading and participating in mass killings, including massacres in churches and a hospital.

  • Serb policemen sentenced for Srebrenica genocide

    Two Serb policemen have been handed lengthy jail terms by a court in Sarajevo on Friday, for ‘aiding genocide’.

    Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric ordered their men to take part in the separating of Muslim men and boys from other villagers and then killing over a thousand of the detainees.

  • US grocer deported to Bosnia for alleged genocide
    A Las Vegas grocer, who has lived in the US since 1999, has been deported to Bosnia to face charges of genocide and war crimes, committed during the Bosnian war in 1995.

    Dejan Radojkovic was arrested on arrival at Sarajevo airport following evidence compiled by prosecutors and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague.
  • Singh in historic Burma visit

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is beginning an official visit to neighbouring Burma.

    In the first visit to Burma by an Indian prime minister since 1987, Singh is seeking to strengthen trade and diplomatic cooperation with its neighbour.

  • US-Pakistan ties damaged by jailing of Dr Afridi - Panetta

    US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has criticised Pakistan's jailing of the doctor who helped the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden.

    Speaking to ABC, Panetta said the jaliing had weakened diplomatic ties between the US and Pakistan and that the 33-year jail sentence was "so difficult to understand and so disturbing".

  • Worldwide condemnation of Houla massacre
    Syria has received widespread international criticism over the massacre at Houla, after the UN Security Council met on Sunday in an emergency session.

    The killings saw at least 90 civilians including 34 children killed, many due to either shelling injuries, opr shot and stabbed to death.

    A UN Security Council statement said that its members
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