A new UN expert report warns that the US’ secretive drone programme threatens international security and lacks "appropriate transparency and accountability.”
The United Nations Secretary-General has urged the National Coalition for the Syrian opposition forces to agree on a united delegation for an upcoming peace conference.
President al-Bashir of Sudan has reportedly applied to the US Embassy in Sudan for a visa to enable him to travel to the 68th session of the UN General Assembly.
With Syria engulfed in an escalating and increasingly brutal civil war, a panel of United Nations human rights experts has issued its latest report on the crisis.
The Peshawar High Court has declared the US guilty of war crimes for its use of drones in North West Pakistan, and ordered the government to stop future strikes.
A new UN resolution does a good job of highlighting past and ongoing human rights violations in Sri Lanka, but not yet to establish a justice procedure.
Two years after Syrians rose in peaceful protest against their government, the country is mired in a bloody conflict with both sides responsible for war crimes.