What's in a name? Following the inauguration of the new UN Human Rights Council in place of the old Commission on Human Rights, Dina Ezzat tries to find an answer

The suicide of three Guantanamo Bay detainees, which did not come as a surprise to many, is intensifying increasing calls for closing the notorious military prison, Tamam Ahmed Jama reports

The international community is paying greater attention to Somalia though there are few signs of progress towards lasting peace in the country, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Canada's political and social landscape continues to be shaken and shaped by the country's highest profile "terror" case since 9/11, reports Hicham Safieddine

Fourteen European states colluded with the CIA's secret and unlawful programme of "extraordinary rendition," reports Sahar El-Bahr