In a year when European countries, the United States, and other traditional donors are looking for ways to balance their budgets, how exactly is the United Nations paying for it? In part by cutting resources in protracted crisis zones like Colombia.
The United States should be leading by example. Instead, the administration seems to want it both ways: unfettered access for human rights monitors abroad while placing restrictions on them at home.
On July 7, Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr is scheduled to die. He was convicted in a Texas court of rape and murder--a capital offense for which he was sentenced to death. But this case is different from other Texas death penalty cases for the fact that Leal is a Mexican citizen. When he was arrested, he was denied the right under international law to contact the Mexican consulate.
A new agreement between the governing council in Benghazi and the Italian government raises the prospect that refugees seeking asylum will be forced back to Libya.
A three judge panel certified the warrants by issuing a legal document that offers some details about horrific abuses that occurred in the early days of the Libyan uprising.
A nice video from Al Jazeera about the conviction of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, a former Rwandan government official who used her position of influence to direct killings of Tutsis in her hometown.