NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) -- International action is needed to stop abductions and sexual violence by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and Sudan, Human Rights Watch said.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch on Monday condemned Sudanese President Omar El Bashir's action of making a known militia leader one of his special advisers.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Sudan has nominated suspected war criminal Ahmed Haroun as co-chair of a committee responsible for investigating human rights complaints in Darfur.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Court in the Netherlands has agreed to hear the trial of a Congolese warlord accused of recruiting child soldiers.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued its first arrest warrants since its inception in 2002.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Governing Council is set to sign a statute this week creating an Iraqi-led tribunal to prosecute human rights abuses committed under Saddam.