Campaigners for the RECOM reconciliation initiative said they had done all they could to promote a cross-regional truth committee and it was time for political leaders to act.

Trial of Efrain Rios Montt, convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in 1980s, thrown into disarray.

Fighting breaks out for first time in nearly six months near eastern city, just days before visit by UN chief.

Burmese President Thein Sein opened a visit to Washington Sunday, joining a town hall meeting at the Voice of America to answer questions on human rights, economic development and foreign investment in his country.

Two crucial reports on violence and human rights will be released in two weeks, the Attorney-General has said.

Authorities in Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday arrested a militia leader accused of participating in one of the worst massacres committed during the West African nation's post-election violence in 2011, a military official and witness said.

Establishing truth and justice in Guatemala is essential to ensuring that heinous crimes such as arbitrary executions, rape and forced displacement – committed during the country’s civil war – do not take place again and to ending impunity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today.

The Chad public prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that it has arrested Mahamat Djibrine, a former political police chief suspected of torture and hundreds of politically motivated killings in the 1980s.

More than 20 political prisoners released to coincide with departure of President Thein Sein for US visit.

Argentine former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who led the country’s military junta from 1976 to 1981, died in a Buenos Aires jail today from natural causes. He was 87.