The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said Islamic State fighters reportedly killed up to 670 prisoners in Mosul and committed other abuses in Iraq that amount to crimes against humanity.

A Red Cross aid convoy carrying emergency supplies is heading to the Syrian city of Homs.

The burial of Muammar Gaddafi has been delayed until his death can be examined by the International Criminal Court, Libyan officials said.

The United Nations said it has received hundreds of reports of people being abducted from their homes at night by armed assailants in military uniform and that there is growing evidence of “massive violations of human rights” since Ivory Coast’s disputed election.

RWANDA has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda’s foreign minister says in a letter sent to the UN.

WOMEN in Afghanistan are facing increasing violence almost eight years after the fall of the Taliban, a UN report showed yesterday.

Women in Afghanistan are facing increasing violence almost eight years after the fall of the Taliban, a UN report showed today.

Malaysia’s leader said claims made to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that his government pursued ethnic cleansing policies were lies designed to divide the races in the Muslim-majority country.

The Irish Government must search US planes landing at Shannon Airport to establish whether they are carrying terrorist suspects, an United Nations expert on torture said tonight.

Human rights groups are angry at a United Nations report that praised the US and its allies for ending years of brutality by Saddam Hussein’s regime, but did not “call coalition forces to account”.

THE worlds of 007 and chequered flags were put aside yesterday as two of Ireland’s best known personalities were conferred with honorary degrees by the Dublin Institute of Technology.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson is to receive an honorary degree from the Dublin Institute of Technology today.

The Government has announced that it will donate £1.25m to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.