Following the publication of hte Bassiouni Report into human rights abuses in Bahrain the eyes of the world have largely turned away from the Gulf state, satisfied that a human rights “process” has run its course. However, substantive abuses continue unabated. By Colin Murray.

The news of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by a US Special Forces team has prompted excited discussion of whether the event marks the end (or at least the decisive turning point) in the conflicts that, for a decade, US policy makers have styled as the “War on Terror”.

Human rights abuses in Sri Lanka and Bahrain have gone largely unreported while the world's attention has been focused elsewhere. By Colin Murray.