Thailand’s cabinet has approved the criteria for compensation of victims of political violence as proposed by the country’s Truth for Reconciliation Commission as registration for compensation will start on Thursday.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 5 – Civil society groups in Kenya have asked the government to strengthen the Witness Protection Agency ahead of the recommendations by a 20-member task force formed to audit the progress of criminal cases related to the 2008 post election violence.

Human Rights Watch Researcher for Africa Division Neela Ghoshal told Capital News that the taskforce should carefully consider how witnesses are assured of protection.

The three major political parties of Nepal - the UCPN (Maoist), NC and the UML - have agreed to take forward the integration process following the seven-point deal, except for a decision on offering a top Nepal Army rank to a Maoist combatant.

A former dictator’s attempt to shield himself from genocide charges was denied on Thursday by a judge who ruled that an international treaty overrules an amnesty law passed in the wake of Guatemala’s civil war.

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister, Abdel Raheem Muhammed Hussein.

The verdict in the war crimes trial of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor will be delivered on 26 April, the UN-backed court trying him has said.

South Sudanese army officers received training on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, among other subjects, during a session led by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country (UNMISS).

Twenty-five South Africans who suffered at the hands of the apartheid security police have claimed a small victory after a United States court ratified a settlement between the claimants and a bankrupt General Motors.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has officially handed over its final report to Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo.

The top United Nations envoy to Libya today expressed confidence that the North African nation will be able to overcome current difficulties and pursue the path towards the goals it committed itself to when the popular uprising began a year ago.

"It is clear that the Libyan people are eager to move forward with the transition to democracy, and their most central expectation of the United Nations is that we will support them in doing so," Ian Martin, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), told the Security Council.