As President Yoweri Museveni begins his new term in office, Amnesty International has urged him to improve Uganda’s patchy human rights record.

Human rights activists seen to be involved in pro-reform protests in Syria have been forced into hiding after receiving threats from Syrian authorities.

Drugs supplied by European pharmaceutical companies are to be used to execute two US prisoners on the 3rd and 6th of May.

The Lebanese authorities are being urged to establish an independent commission to investigate fully the fates of thousands of missing since the civil war.