The United Nations is urging Uganda to prosecute a captured field commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.

A Bangladeshi special court on Sunday indicted a former opposition leader for alleged atrocities including genocide and murder during the nation’s 1971 war against Pakistan.

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor on Monday sought new war crimes charges against Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda and another notorious Democratic Republic of Congo warlord.

Sudanese lawmakers accepted “with reservations” a United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for Sudan and South Sudan to end hostilities, said Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir, the head of parliament.

As a UN court begins its last trial against Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic this week, thousands of suspects remain to be tried for atrocities committed during a decade of Balkans wars.

Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, according to an army official, in what an analyst described as an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting Kony.

The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and Mayi Mayi militias have been accused of committing serious atrocities against the civilian population in the Kivu region.

The Truth for Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (TRCT) has proposed repealing the terrorism law to pave the way for reconciliation and peace in the country.

TRCT chairman Kanit na Nakorn has sent the panel's latest report and proposal to the prime minister and the speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives. The TRCT argued that the law, issued during the tenure of Thaksin Shinawatra's government as a decree, was not based on the principles of democracy and law, or the rule of law.

Global rights watchdog Amnesty International presented an Argentine court Wednesday with documents which show that Spanish courts are blocking lawsuits brought by the families of victims of human rights crimes committed during the 1936-1939 civil war and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.

The human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a grave concern for the United Nations, a visiting diplomat said from Kinshasa.