Defence lawyers at a United Nations tribunal investigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide blasted the court on Thursday, saying it was slow, unjust and under the thumb of the government in Kigali.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will embark on a fundraising drive for it's voluntary trust fund. The funds will be used for outreach programmes in Rwanda and programme activities of the Tribunal.

After a week of harrowing television footage commemorating Rwanda's genocide, survivors marked its eighth anniversary on Sunday wanting to lay the gruesome past to rest.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today adjourned until September the trial of the alleged mastermind behind the country's 1994 genocide one day after it began to give the prosecution and defence teams more time to ensure the case would proceed smoothly.

The international tribunal for Rwanda is to bring its first charges against Tutsis accused of murdering Hutus during the 1994 genocide, despite Kigali's attempts to block the investigations.

A Rwandan musician accused of writing songs and poems that incited the killings of ethnic Tutsis in 1994 pleaded not guilty to charges of genocide before a U.N. tribunal on Thursday.

The prosecution in the case of three individuals accused of using "hate media" to ignite massacres in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, on Wednesday presented the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with 273 audio tapes of recorded broadcasts that allegedly incited killings.

The prosecution in the so-called "Media Trial" produced news articles before judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to prove that genocide suspect Ferdinand Nahimana was a presidential advisor based in Gisenyi Province in July 1994.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has proposed forming a joint committee with the Rwandan government to investigate recent allegations regarding the abuse of witnesses -particularly those from Rwanda - giving evidence at the tribunal.

Reporters Without Borders(Reporters sans frontiers -RSF) has expressed its great concern to the Rwandan government about the murder of a local journalist in the capital, Kigali, and called for a speedy and impartial enquiry.

The prosecution in the so-called "Media Trial" today produced news articles before judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to prove that genocide suspect Ferdinand Nahimana was a presidential advisor based in Gisenyi Province in July 1994.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has sued a Paris-based African Journalist-author Charles Onana in a French High Court for defamation following his publication of a book entitled, "Les Secrets Du Génocide Rwandais- Enquête Sur Les Mystères D'un Président" - (The Secrets of the Rwanda Genocide- Investigation on the Mysteries of a President), which points an accusing finger at the Rwandan leader as the principle suspect Number One in the Plane Crash which led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

A UN report into allegations of corruption and fee splitting between detainees and defence lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was released on Monday [11 March] in New York.

Two suspects wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania.

A recent survey of street children Kigali, Rwanda, has shown that just over half the boys and over three-quarters of the girls interviewed reported having had sex, while a full 35 percent of those under 10 were found to be sexually active.

The registrars of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY) have said they are determined to make every effort possible to prevent abuses of the legal aid system for the two tribunals.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the government of Rwanda have agreed to establish a four-member taskforce to investigate the alleged mistreatment of witnesses at the tribunal. The team will also investigate claims that people suspected to have been involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are working as defense investigators at the ICTR.

Georges Ruggiu, a former journalist at Radio Television Libre Des Mille Collines (RTLM), has psychological problems that affect his recollection of events during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a defense attorney today claimed before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, on Friday 1 March visited Congolese refugees in a camp in Gihembe in Byumba Prefecture, northern Rwanda, on the last stop of his four-nation tour of the Great Lakes region, the agency reported.

Genocide suspect Laurent Semanza has told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that he believes there was no genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Semanza has been testifying in his own defense since 13 February.