Over a decade after the end of Guatemala's armed conflict, many of
those responsible for its most brutal crimes continue to evade criminal
prosecution.
More than 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have become stuck in
the northern Sinai region of Egypt as the Egyptian authorities try to
force them back into Gaza
War crimes and crimes against humanity from the Kosovo conflict in the
late 1990s risk being left unpunished as a result of a failed UN
justice mission.
Political activists continue to be imprisoned in Myanmar, according to
new research by Amnesty International. There have been 96 arrests since
1 November 2007.
The Egyptian authorities began efforts to reclose the country's border
with Gaza, three days after
Palestinian militants blew open breaches in the border wall.