Survivors of sexual violence and non-government organisations have called the ICC's verdict in the Thomas Lubanga trial "weak" and "not definitive" as most sex-related crimes were ... Read more »
Tens of millions have seen the Kony2012 video after US charity, Invisible Children, released the clip online - now a charity has showed the film to the people who suffered at the ... Read more »
Churchgoers at hundreds of Catholic services in England and Wales have been urged to oppose the Government's proposals to legalise gay marriage. Read more »
A military court in Egypt has acquitted an army doctor who had been accused of forcing female protesters to undergo "virginity tests" while in military custody. Read more »
A European court has ruled that the rights of a group of Somali and Eritrean nationals who were intercepted by Italian Customs boats and returned to Libya in 2009 were violated. Read more »
Mass rape as a weapon of war has been practiced by both militias and government forces and is so endemic that about 40 women are raped every day, some as old as 80 years of age and ... Read more »
A young broadcast journalist, Ali Ahmed Abdi, was murdered late Sunday night in the north-central city of Galkayo. The killing is the latest in a string of assaults targeting ... Read more »
A United Nations-mandated commission into human rights abuses perpetrated during the Libyan revolution says that crimes against humanity were committed by both pro-Gaddafi troops ... Read more »
In Batula, a rural community in western Kenya, a local NGO deals with 12 child marriage cases a week. Some of these cases involve young girls who are inherited and forced to ... Read more »
The International Criminal Court will announce its first verdict in March 2012, when it issues a judgment in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo who is accused of participating in ... Read more »
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