“This could be the start of a new dawn for human rights in Burma, but the task facing Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy is huge’ - Champa Patel

‘Israeli forces have a long history of carrying out unlawful killings’ - Philip Luther

Today’s guilty verdict handed down by a UN Court in The Hague against former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadžić for genocide and other crimes under international law marks a major step towa

Crackdown includes jails sentences, forced closures, travel bans, asset freezes and ever-widening judicial investigations

Turkey’s forcible return of around 30 Afghan asylum-seekers just hours after the European Union-Turkey refugee deal came into force shows that implementing the deal risks refugees’ live

Thousands of Syrian refugees in country also blocked from accessing health services

‘Nadiya never had a hope of proving her innocence’ - John Dalhuisen

The Egyptian authorities are expected to freeze the assets of two prominent human rights defenders and their family members tomorrow as part of an investigation into foreign funding of NGOs.