Tens of thousands more Pakistanis are likely to be forced from their homes in 2010 as the military continues an assault against the Taliban, the head of the U.N. office responsible for emergencies said.

American and European activists attempting to go to the Gaza Strip from Egypt to protest Israel's actions during last year's Gaza war have been blocked from doing so.

Honduran women have built a movement that, despite little media attention and the barriers of a male-dominated society, has garnered international support from women around the world and respect from the general resistance movement. By Laura Carlsen.

The military coup in Honduras comes four days after president Zelaya fired the chief of the armed forces for refusing to assist in carrying out a referendum. The president was put on a plane to Costa Rica.

A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza says it will hold public hearings with victims of the conflict in Gaza and Geneva later this month.

In what constitutes a blatant war crime by the Sri Lankan government, the army’s merciless bombardment of a so-called no-fire zone, a small strip of land on the country’s northeast coast, killed and wounded thousands of Tamil civilians over the weekend.

Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide, "The Men Who Killed Me" features testimonials from seventeen survivors. Through their narratives and portraits, sixteen women and one man bear witness to the crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of others.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Helen Clark of New Zealand as the next Administrator of the UNDP. Throughout the selection process and following the appointment, the Secretariat declined to provide information about candidates and the selection panel, suggesting an entrenchment of Ban's practice of opaque hiring processes that place "privacy" concerns over accountability.

The second International Women for Peace Conference will be held in Dili, Timor Leste on 5-6 March 2009. The theme will be 'Women as creative agents for peace'.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, President of Sudan, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.