France started drafting, on Friday, a United Nations Security Council resolution that would refer Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC), for prosecution of war crimes.
French police today, detained a former Bosnian Serb paramilitary soldier allegedly responsible for the death of 59 people after burning civilians alive in a locked house, during the 1992-95 war.
Over 100,000 people were killed during the Bosnian war, leaving 4.6 million people as refugees.
The European Union will look to establish an international tribunal that solely focuses on crimes allegedly committed by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian rebels during their war with Serbia, reports the Associated Press.
The court, which will be set up and paid for by the EU, will consider allegations of atrocities and disappearances committed by the victorious Kosovan military at the end of the war.
The Chadian Foreign Ministry announced today that it will pull out its peacekeeping troops from the African Union mission in the Central African Republic in protest of allegations that they were aiding rebels.
The United States, this week, called on Myanmar, to lift travel restrictions on the United Nations and other humanitarian staff and allow them to resume work in the Rakhine state.
Expressing concern over violent Buddhist mob attacks on UN and non-governmental organisation offices, the State Department said,
Israel, today, backtracked on the scheduled release of a group of Palestinian prisoners and called for the entire negotiation process to be reviewed.
Israeli officials alleged that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas’ move to officially submit applications for membership at 15 UN bodies, had broken confidence in the negotiations.
The United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) helping Burma conduct its first census in decades, expressed concern today over the omission of ethnic Rohingya in the national census.
Accusing the government of the going backwards on its word, the agency reported that census workers were walking away from houses that identified themselves ethnically as Rohingya.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, addressing the International Conference on genocide Prevention, today, reiterated that defending human rights was a global responsibility and called on governments to renew their commitment and political will towards preventing any mass atrocities from occurring again.
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,
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.
