More than 300 protestors are holding a "die-in" demonstration outside the Department of Foreign Affairs this evening to mark the number of people killed in Gaza.

A transgender dentist is to launch a fresh legal challenge for a new birth certificate recognising her female gender.

Sri Lankan security forces have been accused of continuing to use torture, rape and other sexual violence against suspected members of the Tamil Tiger rebels by an international rights group.

The best thing that can happen to any of us, despite all of our what-if lotto fantasies, is to be given an opportunity to do good.

A major trade union says it is a “national embarrassment” that shortcomings in the collective bargaining rights afforded to Irish workers were criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The Minister for overseas aid, Joe Costello, is to lobby African government ministers for support for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

Ireland’s minister for overseas aid is to lobby African government ministers for support for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

IT has been reported that the Government is going to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

IN supporting Ireland’s attempt to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time, Taoiseach Enda Kenny spoke at the weekend about taking a commitment to peace, justice, security and development seriously.

There was a time as a new young nation when our membership of international bodies, like the League of Nations, was important to our sense of national self-esteem.

Ireland is to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time, based on its commitment to justice and peace, Enda Kenny said.

THE United Nations Human Rights Council should accept responsibility, on behalf of the world forum, for the famine spreading through eastern Africa, and should call for member countries’ cooperation to overcome the desperate food crisis there, experts said.

NOTHING in the recent history of the Arab-Israeli struggle had done more damage to Israel’s standing of Israel than the Goldstone report.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the prospect of more aggressive international action against Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in an effort to prevent him carrying out further attacks on his own people.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday branded Libya's crackdown and orders to shoot protesters as “outrageous” and called on the world to speak as one to hold the government accountable.

AN Israeli probe ruled yesterday that a deadly May 2010 raid on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships, which killed nine Turkish activists and soured ties with Ankara, did not violate international law.

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s investigator on freedom of expression said a Venezuelan court’s ban on publishing information and photos about violence was a form of prior censorship and should be changed.