A former minister in Côte d’Ivoire has been issues with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for allaeged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Charles Ble Goude is suspected of committing rape, murder, persecution and other inhumane acts during post-election violence that gripped the country between December 2010 and April 2011.

The Rwandan government has formally requested the extradition of a  suspected Rwandan Hutu militia leader from the Netherlands, over his alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide.

A Dutch court will now consider the decision to extradite the suspect, identified only as "Jean-Claude I.", who was arrested in July of this year.

Dutch prosecutors stated,

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has expressed his concern over Buddhist violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and once again called on Buddhists to put it to an end.

Speaking to his devotees on the first day of his teachings on Nagarjuna’s Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning, The Dalai Lama said,

“Earlier there were crisis among Buddhist and Muslims in Burma and Sri Lanka. Burmese monks were even regarded as terrorists and it is very sad,”

“Recently, I visited Prague, Czech Republic to attend Forum 2000 and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was also there. I spoke with her and she was really concerned,”

“Have faith in your own religion but respect all other religions,”

Earlier this year the Dalai Lama issued a similar appeal, saying,

"Killing people in the name of religion is really very sad, unthinkable, very sad."

"Nowadays even Buddhists now involved, in Burma and Sri Lanka also. Buddhist monks ... destroy Muslim mosques or Muslim families. Really very sad."

The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has announced wide-ranging reforms, including the granting of more rights to Kurds and the removal of the headscarf ban.

The Chinese government has allegedly detained a human rights activist, who was involved in a sit-in outside the Foreign Ministry to press for the public to be allowed to contribute to a national human rights report.

The capital of the autonomous province of Kurdistan in Iraq has been the target of bomb attacks, the first such violence in over 6 years.

The headquarters of the Kurdish security forces, the asayesh, and the interior ministry were hit by the attacks, leaving 6 asayesh dead and dozens injured.

Human Rights watched criticised the UN security council’s recently passed resolution of failing to deliver justice for the Syrian conflict’s victims, today

Sudanese police have killed at least 50 civilians during protests over fuel prices last week, reported Amnesty International and the African Centre for Justice and Peace studies.

Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will not attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York, an official said today.