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Arusha, Tanzania -- The following information was released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: JUDGE DENNIS BYRON, PRESIDENT ___ Mr. President, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like [...]

Summary: The head of a U.N. probe that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza Strip, Richard Goldstone, has said he is disappointed there has been such a 'lukewarm' reaction [...]

By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The U.S. State Department released a report Thursday detailing possible violations of the laws of war in Sri Lanka during the […]

Oct 16, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Following the Government's announcement in July this year that it would extend UK jurisdiction on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity [...]

Analysis by Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Oct. 12, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - An increasingly isolated and unpopular Palestinian Authority (PA) is fending off mounting criticism from every direction, including from its own […]

Leading Middle East scholar, Professor Omar Dajani addresses key question of what happens next? WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations fact-finding panel, led by Richard Goldstone, earlier this [...]

Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Sep. 16, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The Goldstone Commission has delivered an unremittingly scathing report on Israel's 22-day war against Hamas in Gaza [...]

Asmara, Sep 08, 2009 (Shabait.com/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian nationals have been displaced as a result of the war the TPLF regime unleashes [...]

Nairobi, Jul 21, 2009 (Catholic Information Service for Africa/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The main stumbling block to ending the war in Darfur and attaining peace in South [...]

Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jun. 8, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - With support from China and Russia, Burma's military regime has escaped harsh criticism at the United Nations Security Council. But […]

By Daniel Luban NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Amnesty International has called for an arms embargo against both Israel and Hamas after finding evidence both sides used foreign-supplied […]

Dec 09, 2008 (Catholic Information Service for Africa/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- An international human rights organisation has accused all parties in the Somali conflict of regularly committing […]

Nairobi, Jun 12, 2008 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- In its battle against rebels in eastern Ethiopia's Somali Region, Ethiopia's army has subjected civilians to executions, […]

New Report Scrutinizes U.N. Efforts to Resuscitate Kosovo Judicial System WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the European Union prepares to make a decision over its responsibilities with regard to […]

Byline: Kevin J. Kelley, Special Correspondent Nairobi, Aug 21, 2007 (East African/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- All parties in the increasingly vicious conflict in Somalia are guilty of […]

Mogadishu, Aug 14, 2007 (Shabelle Media Network/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Following the Human Rights Report which indicated that the Ethiopian troops in Somalia and the Islamist-led insurgents […]

Berkeley, Jun 29, 2007 (University of California, Berkeley/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A report released by the University of California, Berkeley, and Tulane University provides hard data on […]

Berkeley, Jun 29, 2007 (University of California, Berkeley/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A report released by the University of California, Berkeley, and Tulane University provides hard data on […]

Byline: Jim Lobe Washington, Dec 12, 2005 (Inter Press Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Amid growing frustration over the continuing violence against the African population in Darfur, a […]

Byline: Alpha R. Jalloh Nov 02, 2005 (The Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The U.N.-backed court for war crimes in the coastal West African state of Sierra Leone […]

Nov 02, 2005 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The U.N.-backed court for war crimes in Sierra Leone is making major strides toward ensuring justice for serious […]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: SNJEZANA VUKIC A Croatian journalist charged with contempt by the U.N. war crimes court will remain in prison until extradition, the court ruled Tuesday, rejecting media [...]

He is a cheerful old farmer who jokes as he serves rice cakes made by his wife, and then he switches easily to explaining what it is like to cut […]

To the Editor: 'C.I.A. Report on Bosnia Blames Serbs for 90% of the War Crimes,' your March 9 news article, reveals a factual error on the part of the C.I.A. […]

In what is believed to be the most comprehensive United States assessment of atrocities in Bosnia, the Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that 90 percent of the acts of 'ethnic […]

INTERNATIONAL war crimes investigations have been few in number and their results so far somewhat less than glorious, in large part because it is usually the winning side in a […]

Bosnia's Serbs are accused of 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide' and may also be responsible for 'a systematic rape policy' in areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to the final […]

Ten days after offering his resignation in the face of assertions that he ordered one of the worst atrocities of El Salvador's 12-year civil war, the Defense Minister delivered a […]

Byline: LINDA HOSSIE LINDA HOSSIE IT'S been a long time since the international arena kicked up a piece of good news, but we have one this week in the report [...]

Reacting to a United Nations-sponsored report accusing pro-Government forces of committing most of the atrocities in the 12-year civil war in El Salvador, President Alfredo Cristiani called today for a […]

The United States yesterday released a new report alleging war crimes in Bosnia, mostly committed by Serbs. In its third report on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia submitted to [...]

'Three different international courts have determined that genocide took place in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 1992-1995: the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and [...]

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes Hamas' decision to endorse the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission (the Goldstone Report), and their commitment to conduct effective [...]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing a growing wave of outrage in the West Bank and Gaza over his decision to withdraw support for a UN report that accused Israel [...]

The United Nations fact-finding panel, led by Richard Goldstone, earlier this week released a 575-page report detailing war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas militants, in last year's Gaza [...]

In a damning report on Israel's conduct during its invasion of the Gaza Strip, a UN panel on Sept 15 accused its forces of war crimes and of deliberately spreading [...]

As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 [...]

A new report released today reveals the true extent of child killings by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip during its 23 day offensive on Gaza between 27 December 2008 [...]