Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused armed opposition groups in Syria of deliberately destroying religious sites in November and December 2012, following investigations in mixed areas of Northern Syria.
According to evidence examined and witness statements, a Shia mosque was destroyed and two Christian churches looted after their respective towns fell into opposition control.
A court in Guatemala has begun a pre-trial hearing into a genocide case against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, in potentially the first trial for genocide of the country’s indigenous tribes.
The 86-year-old former general who ruled from 1982-83, stands accused of overseeing hundreds of killings of Mayan indigenous tribes whom he claimed were linked to leftist rebels.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Turkey of abusing anti-terror laws after an Istanbul court ordered the pre-trial detention of nine human rights lawyers.
The lawyers were among 12 arrested last week during early morning raids.
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has appealed last year’s verdict at The Hague, which saw him sentenced to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the country’s brutal civil war.
His legal representatives appealed on more than 40 grounds, saying that the verdict was based on "uncorroborated hearsay evidence".
Rwandan Prosecutor-General Martin Ngoga has slammed France, criticising the country for not doing enough to bring genocide suspects in its territory to justice and stated that Rwanda is willing to consider legal action against France.
The US criticised the prolonged delay in oil exportation by South Sudan and Sudan on Tuesday, arguing that it undermines the peace process. Oil export has been delayed since the two states were unable to come to an agreement on how to withdraw their armies from the disputed border territories.
The former head of the United Nations 2003 mission in Sudan has stated that aerial and ground attacks by Sudan's government forces in a border conflict with rebels may amount to war crimes.
A Bangladeshi court sentenced a Muslim cleric, Abul Kalam Azad, to death for crimes against humanity, committed during the war of independence in 1971.
The cleric, believed to be in Pakistan, was found guilty in absentia. The prosecution asserted he had shot dead six Hindus and raped Hindu women during the war.
A ceasefire between Kachin rebels and the Burmese government has been broken after Burma's army launched attacks on Kachin positions near Laiza, the capital of the Kachin state, controlles by the rebels.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has once again called for a war crimes investigation into Syria, urging the Security Council to act.
