Adverts calling for invitations for expressions of interest in the role of Policing Authority chairperson has already raided a number of concerns, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court yesterday for marrying the man she loved, police and a defence lawyer said.

A woman has been stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistan high court for marrying the man she loved, police and lawyers said.

The North’s chief constable has said criticism of his force’s arrest of Gerry Adams was unfair and inappropriate.

Northern Ireland’s chief constable has said criticism of his force’s arrest of Gerry Adams was unfair and inappropriate.

The diplomat who was president of the UN Security Council in April 1994 apologised today for the council’s refusal to recognise that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has confirmed Garda recruitment will recommence today with an estimated 300 posts being offered.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter expressed his frustration yesterday at the failure of Cabinet colleague Brendan Howlin to agree to the staffing and budget details for the State’s new human rights and equality body.

The Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission are looking to take part in a Supreme Court appeal against a landmark surrogacy ruling.

The head of Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission is resigning for personal reasons, it was revealed.

Sweeping changes to the model of oversight for the Garda Síochána and how the force interacts with the Justice Minister will be debated in the Dáil this evening.

Ireland’s election on to an international body promoting human rights around the globe is an honour, according to President Michael D Higgins.

Ireland’s election on to an international body promoting human rights around the globe is an honour, President Michael D Higgins has said.

A terminally-ill woman has today pleaded with judges to spare her a horrible death and let her be helped to die lawfully with dignity, surrounded by her family.

THE simple answer to the question posed by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as to whether women are “bearing the brunt” of the recession is “No”.

Efforts by the Justice Minister Alan Shatter to establish a Human Rights and Equality Commission have hit another major stumbling block, after the Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly withdrew her involvement.

A beefed-up human rights agency — combining two bodies into one — will have the power to hold its own inquiries under proposed legislation.

No convictions have been secured under anti-gangland legislation enacted in 2009 following an increase in violent deaths and crimes carried out by organised criminals.

The first democratically-elected president of the Maldives has resigned and been replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge.

The implications of a recent UN review on Ireland's human rights record will come under the spotlight today.

BUDGET cuts are putting human rights at risk for a range of people including children and the elderly, Europe’s main human rights body has warned.

BONES and teeth of potential victims of drug trafficking gangs were found in Tijuana on land owned by a man who in 2009 confessed to disposing 300 bodies in vats of acid, officials have said.

Susana Chavez, a 36-year-old poet and activist who adopted the slogan Not One More Death, was found strangled, mutilated and dumped on a street in the Mexican border city of Juarez, infamous for a series of murders of women – even before drug cartels made it one of the most violent places in the world.

A decade-long effort to create a bill of rights for the North could be wasted if the British government does not make speedy progress, an academic and member of the Human Rights Commission said today.

An Northern Ireland Assembly bid to protect the Irish language failed tonight.

The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is to leave his post, it was revealed today.

INTEGRATION Minister Mary White has indicated she intends to push for the reversal of savage cuts made to equality and rights bodies last year and increase their funding.

Senator David Norris writes serious revision is required in the Seanad, otherwise it would be better to shut up shop

THE former head of the Equality Authority has revealed an attempt to sack him and a boardroom coup before the devastating budget cut that finally forced his resignation.

INTEGRATION Minister Mary White is to meet the Nigerian ambassador and review the laws on racism in the wake of the death of an African schoolboy.

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today that a delay in publishing the Bloody Sunday report was unacceptable.

A FORMER senator who was heavily involved in the North’s Patten Commission policing report will chair a three-month inquiry into the Tallaght Hospital crisis.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints today from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of US, NATO Hand Afghan troops recently seized from the Taliban.

At this time of year, the State Papers inevitably fill much newspaper space. Such material is 30 years old, but it is news because it has only just been released.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial for war crimes over their actions during last winter’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a recent UN report in a keynote address to parliament.

RANK-AND-FILE gardaí are concerned that controversial gangland legislation rushed through the Dáil last week could be open to legal challenge.

THE Government has declared war on gangs with members facing non-jury trials and up to life in prison in a radical shakeup of the criminal justice system.

IRELAND is one of only five EU countries where an increase in racist crimes was reported, according to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

AN OIREACHTAS committee is to seek an independent review of the cases of women who underwent a controversial procedure during childbirth which left them with a litany of lasting health problems.

A MOTHER facing prison for defaulting on a credit union loan, part of which was to pay for her daughter’s funeral, has won her constitutional challenge against the jail sentence in a test case which could have widespread repercussions for people in debt.

An unemployed mother of two has won her constitutional challenge against a one-month jail sentence imposed on her due to inability to pay arrears on a Credit Union loan

THE Ryan Report revealed sexual and physical abuse on a monstrous scale in Ireland in the labour camps that were the industrial and reform schools. Since its publication, we have come to realise that, without acknowledgement there can be no healing, without redress, no closure.

The decision to impose a one month prison sentence on a woman for the non-payment of a debt of €5865 has been described as being something from Victorian times when people could be jailed for lengthy terms over debts, the High Court has heard.