Full Coverage: Justice and crime

24.01.2008 UN Human Rights High Commissioner seemed to have rubbed some of the Sri Lankan nationalists the wrong way when she remarked in the wake of recent termination of ceasefire that human rights violators could face trial in international courts. People’s Liberation Front and other groups have taken umbrage at her comments and are fuming.

22.01.2008 As women suffer the horrific consequences of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one Congolese and one American women are helping to stem the violence and support its victims.

17.01.2008 A new video-telecommunications system jointly set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US government in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has enabled over 600 prisoners currently held by US forces to be in regular contact with their relatives.

15.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 14 (IPS) - As the world marked the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first orange-jumpsuit-clad prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, human rights groups are attempting to focus public and congressional scrutiny on what some are calling "the other Gitmo."

11.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military camp.