UN expert calls for international pressure on N Korea over abductions

A United Nations human rights investigator has recommended that international pressure be put on North Korea as part of a multi-pronged strategy to know the fate of hundreds of foreign nationals......

From finding love, to being taken by spies: Case of missing Indian in Pakistan

An Indian national, who went missing in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in 2012, was taken away by intelligence agencies from a police station before his......

UN seeks international judges to probe Lankan war crimes

One shocking finding of the investigation was the extent to which sexual violence was committed against detainees, often extremely brutally, by the Sri Lankan security forces, with men as......

The killings we don't want to talk about

'When you start delving deeper into these disappearances, you have to face the question: Was it a policy at the State level?''It surely couldn't have been random officers acting on their own.''Was......