Human Rights Watch  (HRW) in a report released today, outlined that the increased restrictions on Tibetans in Nepal were a result of strong pressure from China.

NATO suspended all practical cooperation with Russia, today, in protest of Russian involvement in the annexation of Crimea and outlined plans to take measures to strengthen Ukraine’s defences.

Informing the press of NATO’s decision, the Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said,

The Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial at the International Criminal Court was, today, further postponed to October.

Outlining the reason for the decision the, ICC said,

 Over 100,000 protesters flooded the streets of Taiwan’s capital on Sunday, to voice discontent against a trade pact with China that was rushed through parliament.

Palestinian officials rejected an Israeli proposal to extend peace-talks beyond April 29, outlining that it was akin to “blackmail.”

Speaking to the AFP, a Palestinian official in Ramallah, said,

Amnesty International, in a briefing on the deteriorating rights situation in North-East Nigeria, called for a war crimes probe into the escalating conflict.

Expressing concern at the number of civilians killed in the escalating violence , Amnesty stressed that the conflict had descended into “a situation of non-international armed conflict in which all parties are violating international humanitarian law.”

Burmese officials began the first national census in three decades today, causing tensions over the government’s decision to omit the Rohingya identity from the census.

Despite calls from the United Nations to allow all the people in Burma to choose their identity, Burmese officials said that the Muslim Rohingya must identify themselves as Bengali to be registered on the national census.

The Russian foreign minister, Serfei Lavrob, in his meeting with the US secretary of state, John Kerry, today, as part of a set criteria to reach a diplomatic solution to the situation in Ukraine, called for greater autonomous powers to be given to the regions of southern and eastern Ukraine.

The European Union declared, this weekend, that it was ready to launch the delayed peace-keeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). 

A spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton, said,

US and Indian officials met for the sixth session of consultations on East Asia on Friday, said the State Department in a press release earlier this week.

The two countries will “share views on regional priorities and identify areas for cooperation in ... regional and multilateral institutions.”

The United Nations Human Rights Council, yesterday, adopted a resolution urging the international community to back an international criminal investigation against individuals accountable for atrocities in North Korea, whilst considering targeted sanctions.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesterday, in its second resolution regarding Palestine, demanded that all settlement activities in Occupied Palestinian Territory be ‘immediately’ stopped and reversed.

Whilst condemning Israel’s expansion of settlements and expropriation of Palestinian land, the resolution called on Israel,

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, today, outlined that Moscow would not order its armed forces to cross over the Ukrainian border into the eastern Ukraine.

Speaking on Russian state television, he said,

Dutch police, today, arrested a man wanted for his alleged involvement in war crimes during the breakup of Yugoslavia.