Human rights campaigners have warned that Syrian opposition fighters are conducting summary killings, using child soldiers, sectarian violence and com...

Publishing a book about a highly charged ethnic conflict in which tens of thousands have died is no path to a peaceful life. You only need to look at the racial abuse and filthy language in the comments sections of online sites frequented by Sri Lankans to see how intense the emotions still are.

It's been frustrating to watch the international reporting of the story of the impeachment of Sri Lanka's top judge. Some reports have got bogged down in the issue of whether or not she is guilty of corruption. That's not the issue at stake.

A Christian man was beheaded by Syrian rebels and fed to dogs, a nun has told a British newspaper. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Sister Agnes-Mari...

The Sri Lankan military is advertising a newly constructed hotel in the heart of the killing fields in the north of the island, where tens of thousands of minority Tamils were killed in 2009. Right in the heart of what was rebel territory, the hotel overlooks the stretch of water that became the frontline during the final bloody months of the conflict.

Desmond Tutu is not just great because of what he says and does; he is great because he demands a realisation of our individual greatness. He helps us believe that greatness exists.

It's not the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last time that Dr Karadzic mentions me in the dock.

With his generous double chin and wide smile, Radovan Karadzic looked more like a portly Dickensian schoolmaster as he sat at his defence hearing, tha...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has instructed lawyers to try and find a way of suing Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation. The ...

What a few weeks it has been for that Machiavellian matriarch Sheikh Hasina. She swished into London in August to bookmark the Olympic Games (opening and closing ceremony tickets for Bangladesh's premier - no messing around with an either/or scenario).

No child is safe from the bloody conflict in Syria amid reports of the "shocking" scale of brutality against youngsters. War Child said young Syria...

Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone. Handing him th...

Former Serbian military chief Ratko Mladic, also known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" is accused of masterminding some of the worst atrocities Europe has ...

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes after a five year trial. Taylor, 64, described by prosecutors as an "inte...

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor will likely be imprisoned in the UK if international judges find him guilty of war crimes after a five year tria...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's defence counsel have called for the son of former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to be moved to the Hague, saying that he is be...

In the north east of Sri Lanka just now there is a brutal and repressive clamp-down on the Tamil population. Thousands are still homeless while the military has seized land and homes. Around the world a generation of Tamil youth are burning with anger. If the world does not take action to find the truth and make the perpetrators face justice, that anger may find its expression in a tragic, awful, repetition of history. WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES

There are now just six days left for the British government to extract its prisoner from Bagram. If they fail on the basis that the US feels no obligation to keep its promise and hand him over, the MoD must expect promptly to be sued, and for a war crimes report to be made to the police.

How many more thousands have to die before the President Barack Obama takes action to stop the massacres? Syria is the most pressing and most urgent crisis to face the democratic Super Powers.