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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its deep concern at the latest developments in the establishment of transitional justice institutions in Nepal. On 19 April 2012, the major political parties of Nepal have agreed to merge the initially proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of investigation into disappearances into one unique commission the Integrated Reconciliatory Commission, placing a heavy emphasis on Reconciliation over Justice. There are rising concerns that this unique commission would be granted the power to provide amnesty, including for human rights violations and even in cases in which the victims refuse to pardon the perpetrators. This would constitute a clear encroachment of Nepal's obligation to provide victims of human rights violations with an effective right to a legal redress, under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Pakistan Federal Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would file an appeal against the verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) in the contempt of court case.

A President of one of the two counties almost perennially at war with each other visiting the other, what on the face of mother earth makes news that gets bigger than this? The fact that this is a President on Pilgrimage, and not on another diplomatic mission infused with dry details of that elusive thaw in the relations merely adds to the importance and makes it a stuff of legend.

UN-funded housing project site for Palestinians at Khan Younis, Gaza.

Members of a Syrian family register as refugees in northern Lebanon.

A Bosnian-born immigrant in New York accused on nine terrorism counts heard a second friend testify that he was a willing participant in a suicide bombing plot in New York City.

A Congolese woman, displaced by LRA attacks, carries a bag of non-food items distributed by UNHCR in Dungu, DR of Congo.

Special Rapporteur Joy Ngozi Ezeilo.

A wave of fierce suicide attacks and fighting unleashed by heavily-armed Taliban in Kabul and three other Afghan cities ended Monday morning, after about 18 hours, leaving 51 people dead, including 36 terrorists, officials said.

Almost half of Sudan’s oil is pumped out of Heglig.