Sri Lanka's main minority Tamil party demanded Friday that foreign judges be included in a special court to investigate war crimes, a day after the UN again granted Colombo more time for a much-delayed probe.

Sri Lankan Tamils demand foreign judges in war crimes probe

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday approved giving Sri Lanka two more years to set up a credible war crimes investigation into the island nation's brutal civil war.

United Nations rights body grants Sri Lanka war crimes probe extension

Saudi Arabia on Thursday reiterated its rejection of calls for an international, independent investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, insisting it was well equipped to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Saudi Arabia rejects call for international probe of Khashoggi murder

The family of former industrial tycoon Carlos Ghosn, currently held in Japan on tax evasion charges, is to appeal to the United Nations in a bid to have him released, one of his lawyers said Monday.

Carlos Ghosn family calls on UN to help release him, says lawyer

China is lobbying hard to thwart scrutiny of its mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region at the UN Human Rights Council's main annual session opening on Monday, diplomats and activists said.

China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela in hot seat at UN rights forum

Venezuelan security forces have executed several people and arbitrarily detained hundreds of others in a campaign to punish people who protested against President Nicolas Maduro, human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Venezuela security forces kill, punish anti-Maduro protesters: Amnesty

The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority.

UN to create panel to prepare indictments over Myanmar atrocities

More than 80 rights and aid agencies; including Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Refugees International signed for Russia's removal

Rights organisations seek to oust Russia from Human Rights Council

India said the main reason for the the disturbances in Kashmir is the cross-border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan

India raises Balochistan for first time at UN, lashes out at Pak

The military also competes against small-scale vendors of private enterprise, from beauty parlours to businesses selling vegetables and fish

Sri Lanka aims to demilitarise island by 2018