Today’s vote by the Human Rights Council highlights the lack of progress towards addressing Sri Lanka's culture of impunity. The resolution calls on the government to conduct an independent and credible investigation into human rights violations committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.

"There needs to be an independent and credible international investigation into alleged violations of human rights in Sri Lanka."

Writing in The Times, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu warn that without pressure from the Human Rights Council and the Commonwealth, the human tragedies of Sri Lanka’s civil war will not be accounted for.

Writing in The Guardian as the UN Human Rights Council session opens in Geneva, Archbishop Tutu and Mary Robinson say it is not just Sri Lanka's people that the Council must serve this week, but the cause of international law.

Marchandages politiciens et trocs de votes caractérisent trop souvent les nominations à des postes internationaux. L'élection du prochain procureur de la Cour pénale internationale offre une occasion unique de choisir le candidat le plus qualifié, estime Kofi Annan dans une tribune publiée dans Libération (France).

Kofi Annan writes in Business Day (South Africa) that the election of new International Criminal Court prosecutor must result in the appointment of the most qualified candidate, and not, as is too often the case, the person thought least offensive to most countries.

Writing in The Guardian, Mary Robinson argues that extreme poverty robs people of their human rights and that countries behind schedule with their Millennium Development Goals will stay that way unless they're made accountable.

Writing in The International Herald Tribune, Kofi Annan argues that our challenge is to protect the innocent by building an International Criminal Court so strong, universal and effective that it will deter even the most determined of despots.

In his speech to a conference to mark 60 years of the Geneva Conventions organised by Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Kofi Annan outlined what he saw as the real challenges facing the Conventions - and international law - in the coming decades.