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1. Far-rightwinger's bid to run Israel Holocaust memorial stirs protest: Israel's nomination of a far-right nationalist with a history of anti-Arab rhetoric to lead Yad Vashem has triggered outrage among Holocaust experts who say his leadership would "disgrace" ...
2. Questions linger among the corpses of an Ethiopian massacre: Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the ...
3. Rebel shelling kills seven Yemen children: medics: Rebel shelling of government-held districts of Yemen has killed seven children over the past two days, medics and relief agencies said. In Yemen's third largest city Taez, ...
4. Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency: For a year under the military dictatorship, Major Lamin Bo Baaji was the director of Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Yet despite evidence put forward by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations ...
5. Corporate responsibility: Switzerland says no but the UN must say yes: ... on, which creates competition for various economic actors with different priorities, particularly with respect to social and environmental issues. As Olivier de Schutter and Sharan Burrow explained so ...
6. Syrian trial in Germany: The orders that came from the very top: In the Al-Khatib trial against two former secret service officers from Syria, a witness has provided confidential documents issued by the Syrian regime. They would prove that crimes were ordered from the ...
7. Azerbaijan probing war crimes in Karabakh fighting: Baku is investigating alleged war crimes committed by both Armenian and Azerbaijani forces during six weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, the country's prosecutor ...
8. Questions linger among the corpses of an Ethiopian massacre: Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the ...
9. Azerbaijan moves into second district handed back by Armenia: Azerbaijani soldiers and military trucks rolled into the district of Kalbajar on Wednesday, reclaiming the second of three regions Armenia is handing back under a deal that ended weeks of ...
10. Saudi Aramco says Huthi strike tore large hole in oil tank: Saudi Aramco said Tuesday that a strike by Yemeni rebels on its plant in Jeddah tore a hole in an oil tank, triggering an explosion and fire in another assault on the kingdom's energy infrastructure. ...
11. Sheka gets life in jail in landmark Congolese judgment: On 23 November, Congolese military justice sentenced former militia leader Ntabo Ntaberi, alias Sheka, to life for war crimes. This is a major success for victims in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
12. Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures: activists: Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN's top court. The International ...
13. Nepal stalling prosecutions on war crimes: HRW: Nepal's authorities are preventing police and prosecutors from pursuing wartime crimes from the conflict between Maoist rebels and the state which ended in 2006,contributing to a culture ...
14. Azerbaijan's Fizuli a ghost town after Karabakh battles: Under a light drizzle, Azerbaijani forces reclaim Fizuli three decades after they lost control of the town, finding homes left in ruins and overgrown with foliage. Armenian ...
15. Australian special forces 'unlawfully killed' 39 in Afghanistan: Australia's elite special forces "unlawfully killed" 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, including summary executions as part of initiation rituals, according to evidence in a searing military ...
16. Australian special forces 'unlawfully killed' 39 in Afghanistan: Australia's elite special forces "unlawfully killed" 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, including summary executions as part of initiation rituals, according to evidence in a searing military ...
17. Australian troops 'unlawfully killed' 39 Afghans in alleged war crimes: Australia's top general said Thursday there was credible evidence that his special forces unlawfully killed 39 unarmed civilians and prisoners during the war in Afghanistan, referring the ...
18. Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”: In his 22-year rule, Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly put down several coups. In their aftermaths, the purported participants made confessions on television. Details of how these were obtained ...
19. UN warns of war crimes in spiralling Ethiopia conflict: The United Nations warned Friday of possible war crimes in Ethiopia's Tigray region, as the US condemned the massacre of civilians in fighting which the prime minister claimed had left his ...
20. UN warns of war crimes in spiralling Ethiopia conflict: The United Nations warned Friday of possible war crimes in Ethiopia's Tigray region, after 10 days of combat that the prime minister claimed had his enemy "in the final throes of death". ...