Prominent human rights organizations request that the latest
draft Disappearances bill in Nepal be amended to make it comply with
international law and standards.
More than 200,000 people living in camps with limited access to food, also face human rights abuses by both the army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), says a new Amnesty International report.
Women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the Japanese
Imperial army during the Second World War, have now been waiting 64 years for an official apology
and adequate reparations.
Santiago Omar Riveros, who ran a detention centre, was found guilty of torturing and beating to
death a 15 year old boy. He is also accused of over 40 crimes against humanity involving victims of the era's so-called "disappeared".
The former Liberian president faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that he is alleged to have committed in Sierra Leone. Despite this, many Sierra
Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty Internation
The Israeli authorities must co-operate fully with the international mission, established by the UN Human Rights Council and led by Justice Richard Goldstone.
