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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Syrian ambassador to the United Nations Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui greets an unidentified delegate before the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Carla del Ponte, member of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria pauses before the report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro (L) delivers his report next to U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro (L) talks with U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay before the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro (2L) arrives with members Carla del Ponte (R) Karen Koning Abuzayd (2R) and Vitit Muntarbhorn (L) before their report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Syrian ambassador to the United Nations Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui greets an unidentified delegate before the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/11/2013 8:27:44 AM EST
Carla del Ponte, member of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria pauses before the report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/8/2013 4:03:24 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, Kerry Kennedy, attends the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 2010 Ripple of Hope Awards Dinner New York. In a motion filed Friday, March 8, 2013, Kennedy's lawyer says the July 2012, drugged-driving charge against her in New York should be dismissed because it was only by accident that she took a sleeping pill before driving. Kennedy said she believes she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of her thyroid medication. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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Posted: 3/8/2013 11:44:34 AM EST
Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani, Secretary General of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran, looks on during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/7/2013 3:18:21 PM EST
In this image provided by The Smithsonian Institution, the Cyrus Cylinder is seen on display at the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler Gallery in Washington. The 2,500-year-old Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's first human rights charter will be shown for the first time in the United States at the gallery, followed by stops in New York, Houston and Los Angeles. The British Museum is loaning the cylinder, which carries an account of how Persian king Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. and restored people held captive to their homelands. (AP Photo/The Smithsonian Institution, John Tsantes)
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Posted: 3/7/2013 3:18:21 PM EST
In this image provided by The Smithsonian Institution, a gold bowl from the Oxus Treasure, left, and a silver bowl with winged lions and heads of the Egyptian deity Bes are seen on display at the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler Gallery in Washington. The items go with a exhibit along with the Cyrus Cylinder, a 2,500-year-old Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's first human rights charter will be shown for the first time in the United States, beginning with the Smithsonian’s Freer Sackler Gallery, followed by stops in New York, Houston and Los Angeles. The British Museum is loaning the Cyrus Cylinder, which carries an account of how Persian king Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. and restored people held captive to their homelands. (AP Photo/The Smithsonian Institution, John Tsantes)
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Posted: 3/6/2013 7:18:10 PM EST
What human rights organisation Amnesty International calls 20 possible guard posts are seen in North Korea's Ch'oma-Bong valley, in this satellite image released by Amnesty International in London on March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Digital Globe 2013/Amnesty International/handout
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Posted: 3/6/2013 7:18:10 PM EST
What Amnesty International says is the construction of an entrance gate in North Korea's Ch'oma-Bong valley, is seen in this combination picture made of satellite images taken in 2008 (top) and 2013 and released by human rights organisation Amnesty International in London on March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Digital Globe 2013/Amnesty International/handout
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Posted: 3/5/2013 5:18:35 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2004 file photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks at a ceremony where he was awarded the "Gadhafi International Human Rights Prize 2004" in Tripoli, Libya. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 that Chavez has died. Chavez, 58, was first diagnosed with cancer in June 2011. (AP Photo/Yousef Al-Ageli, File)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 2:24:07 PM EST
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay smiles before delivering her annual report to the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Posted: 3/4/2013 7:58:18 PM EST
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," attends his hearing at court in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Duvalier appeared in court Thursday after three times shunning a summons for a hearing on whether he should be charged with human rights abuses during his brutal 1971-1986 regime. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Posted: 3/4/2013 7:58:18 PM EST
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," center, attends his hearing as his companion Veronique Roy sits behind, right, inside a courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Duvalier appeared in court Thursday after three times shunning a summons for a hearing on whether he should be charged with human rights abuses during his brutal 1971-1986 regime. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Posted: 3/4/2013 7:28:41 PM EST
India’s Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 12 years to protest an Indian law that suspends many human rights protections in areas of conflict, speaks during a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 4, 2013. Sharmila who has been force fed through a tube by authorities was charged Monday with attempted suicide in a case likely to bring major attention to her quiet protest in the tiny northeastern state of Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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Posted: 3/4/2013 12:58:46 PM EST
In this Sunday March 3, 2013 image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebel fighters tour the police academy complex in Khan al-Asal, in the province of Aleppo, Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels seized the police academy in Khan al-Asal after entering the sprawling government complex with captured tanks. The Observatory said the battle left at least 120 soldiers and 80 rebels dead. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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Posted: 3/4/2013 12:58:46 PM EST
In this Sunday March 3, 2013 image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebel fighters are seen walking within the police academy complex in Khan al-Asal, in the province of Aleppo, Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels seized the police school in Khan al-Asal after entering the sprawling government complex with captured tanks. The Observatory said the battle left at least 120 soldiers and 80 rebels dead. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
