President Obama needs to put this principle into practice, and there is no better case for the humanitarian use of force than the urgent need to arrest Joseph Kony, the ruthless leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and protect the civilians who are his prey.

The arrest in France of a Rwandan rebel leader for serious crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo sends a strong signal that the International Criminal Court is at work investigating crimes in the Kivus and will pursue abusive commanders.

Only three countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan - are known to have executed an individual since the beginning of 2009 for a crime committed before age 18. In advance of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, October 10, Human Rights Watch called on the three countries to immediately end the practice.

Yoseph Mulugeta is the former Secretary General of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), Ethiopia’s leading rights monitoring organization despite longstanding government hostility.

Steave Nemande, president of the human rights organization Alternatives-Cameroun, speaks out against laws criminalizing homosexuality.

The Ethiopian government’s release on October 6, 2010, of detained opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa should pave the way for freeing dozens of other political prisoners in the country. Birtukan, the leader of the Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, had been detained since December 2008 following an earlier two-year imprisonment.

UNESCO should use this month's executive board meeting to cancel its prize named after and funded by Teodoro Obiang, the president of Equatorial Guinea.

Painstaking police work and careful attention to the suspects’ rights are required to prosecute terrorism cases successfully. Violating suspects’ rights also risks alienating and further radicalising young men. Neither kidnapping suspects nor locking up those who protest violations will make the region safer.