Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila announced on Wednesday that authorities would arrest a serving army general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.

Based on the principle of universal justice, human rights crimes committed during Spain's 1936-1939 civil war and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco are being tried in Argentina, and more and more plaintiffs are joining the lawsuit.

Colombia will stage events around the country Monday to mark a new national Victims' Day, remembering the millions who have suffered in the long-running armed conflict.

Twenty-two years after the break up of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, prominent figures from the dictatorship remain key players in Chile's military and political system.

Lawmakers in Suriname have passed a law under which the president has immunity for alleged violations committed under his earlier military rule.

SARAJEVO — A "virtual museum" depicting the deadly siege of Sarajevo, the longest in the history of modern warfare, is due to be launched Thursday, organisers said.

The exhibit will be unveiled at www.famacollection.org to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the start of Bosnia's 1992-1995 interethnic war, in which more than 100,000 people were killed and nearly half Bosnia's pre-conflict population of 4.3 million fled their homes.

A UN body tasked with pushing for workers’ rights and an end to forced labour in Burma has been granted access to conflict zones in the country’s border regions that for years have been largely off-limits to international monitoring groups.

The first International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday indicted a top 1971 war crime suspect and opposition lawmaker Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury on 23 counts nearly two years after his arrest on charges of crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

“The 23 charges (brought by the prosecution against you (Chowdhury) are framed,” pronounced the chair of the three-member tribunal Justice Nizamul Haque as Chowdhury was brought to dock from Kashimpur Central Jail.

The defense of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic again pleaded not guilty on all counts in a pre-trial brief published by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday.

Rights groups in Kenya are questioning whether a new taskforce set up by the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, to review criminal cases stemming from post-election violence in 2007 and 2008 will deliver justice.