Crimes against humanity

The Hague Tribunal has acquitted Vojislav Seselj on all counts of the indictment against him in the first-instance ruling announced on Thursday.

The leader of the SRS party stood accused of committing crimes against humanity and violating the laws or customs of war.

The UN war crimes court in The Hague will deliver its most highly-anticipated verdict on Thursday in the case against former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.

A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has voiced concern over what it described as the "increasingly worrisome situation" in southeast Turkey and its impact on human rights.

A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will pay an official visit to Turkey next week in order to study measures adopted by the government to counter enforced disappearances.

The UN’s Human Rights Committee said Bosnia and Herzegovina violated the rights of widow Sakiba Dovadzija because it failed to prosecute those responsible for the enforced disappearance of her husband.

War crimes are "rampant" in Syria, and the conflict has become "a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances," U.N. investigators said in a new report Feb. 22.

Three Romanian citizens have been arrested on suspicion that they murdered an elderly couple in the village of Brodice, near Pozarevac, eastern Serbia.

The Interior Ministry (MUP) also said that the three - V.G., born in 1961, F.G. (1967) and V.D. (1972) - are being held on the order of the prosecution based on suspicion that they committed the criminal act of aggravated murder.

Judges at the International Criminal Court Jan. 27 gave its prosecutor a green light to launch a new inquiry into allegations of war crimes during a brief but bloody 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.

There is an old fairground game called Whac-a-Mole. You whack a (fake) mole on the head and drive it down into its hole - and instantly one or more other moles pop up out of other holes. It's an excellent metaphor for humanity's inability to abolish sexual slavery.

Turkey has failed to fulfill its "positive obligation" to effectively prevent torture and ill treatment, the country's top court has ruled in a case filed by a person who was tortured while in custody.

According to the ruling published in the Official Gazette on Dec. 22, the applicant will be paid 30,000 liras for non-pecuniary damages.