Human Rights | WPN World People News

The Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Monday announced that Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese rebel leader wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, surrendered himself to the United States embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. The U.S. government has publicly confirmed this information.

The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water source for their cattle.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.

Remnants of a RBK-250/275 AO-1SCh cluster bomb in Deir Jamal from a strike on February 28, 2013.

Michelle Bachelet addresses participants at a CSW side event. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looks on.

A federal judge approved a settlement between the government and several rights groups in a long-running lawsuit demanding transparency in the controversial Secure Communities (SCOMM) program.

Malian refugees with their belongings after arriving at Goudebou camp in Burkina Faso.

A group of Syrian refugees, making a risky journey by foot from the governorate of Daá'ra, cross at night into Jordan.

Christof Heyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

A boy and his father in Cyber City, a transit facility for Syrian refugees, in Ramtha, Jordan.