DOCTORS working for the US military ignored or covered up brutal acts of physical and psychological torture at Guantanamo Bay, it has been claimed.

A human rights group’s survey of women who fled Sudan’s Darfur conflict found that a third reported or showed signs of rape and revealed a widespread fear of continuing sexual violence in their refugee camp in Chad.

Israel is trying to force sick Palestinians to trade intelligence information for medical treatment, a human rights group claimed today.

Israel’s new defence minister today ordered the army to allow into Israel any of the hundreds of Gazans holed up at a tunnel crossing who might desperately need medical treatment.

Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees have abandoned a hunger strike, lowering the number of inmates refusing food to 18, the US military says.

Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints within the West Bank are preventing Palestinians from obtaining health care and endangering the entire Palestinian emergency medical system, according to a report.

Saddam Hussein’s government is believed to have buried as many as 300,000 opponents in 263 mass graves that dot the Iraqi landscape, a human rights official in the US administration said today.

The UN is investigating reports that witnesses with possible information about alleged mass killings in northern Afghanistan have been executed.

The United Nations today promised to send a delegation to investigate the discovery of a mass grave – believed to contain the bodies of hundreds of Taliban soldiers.

Hundreds of men - probably Taliban prisoners killed by their Northern Alliance captors - are buried in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan, a US human rights group has said.