Dispatches: In this age of austerity, the International Criminal Court's big budget ask signals fresh thinking.
Iran has sworn in a new president, but can Hassan Rouhani now make good on his promises to expand personal freedoms and respect human rights?
In Egypt, the stand-off between the interim government and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsy continues. Many fear another bloodbath if the authorities follow through on their threats to disperse sit-ins in Cairo.In Thailand, a proposed amnesty law would let both soldiers and militants responsible for deaths during the 2010 upheaval off the hook. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Kenneth Roth writes that the al-Qaeda threat to the United States, while still real, no longer meets the standards that define an armed conflict under international law.