Sri Lankan foreign minister GL Peiris is meeting UK Foreign Secretary William Hague amidst calls for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes.

Three leading human rights NGOs have called for an international inquiry into the evidence of war crimes and other abuses during the civil war.

Amnesty International has urged the USA, the only country that carried out executions in the Americas in 2009, to end its use of this cruel and inhumane punishment.

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern about weapons used by UK police that have not gone through the Home Office weapons testing and approval process.