CANADIAN farmer Percy Schmeiser brings his international fight against genetic modification to West Cork this week.

At least 127 pro-democracy activists have died in the custody of Burma’s ruling junta, most of them after torture and ill-treatment in the country’s network of prisons and interrogation centres, a report by an opposition group released today said.

TREATMENT of detainees at Guantanamo Bay violates international law and in some cases constitutes torture, according to details of a draft United Nations report revealed yesterday.

AS Irish citizens and members of a local branch of Amnesty International, we are extremely concerned about reports highlighting a bilateral agreement that the Minister for Justice has signed with the US to combat terrorism.to combat terrorism.

THE Government came under further pressure yesterday to check if terrorist suspects are being carried through Shannon Airport onboard US warplanes.

The Government came under further pressure today to check if terrorist suspects are being carried through Shannon Airport onboard US warplanes.

The UN General Assembly adopted a watered-down document on poverty, human rights and UN reform for world leaders to approve at a summit this week, after shedding many of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s most ambitious goals during weeks of bitter debate.

Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

IRAN has made an official complaint to the Irish embassy in Tehran following EU criticism of the country’s human rights record.

AMERICAN and North Korean officials are to meet in Beijing to discuss North Korea's nuclear programme, the source of rising tensions in the region.

FEARS grew yesterday that US troops captured in Iraq could face torture and sexual abuse.