Human rights organisations have issued an urgent appeal for support for a women's rights activist jailed in Tehran's Evin Prison.

Irish parents should be outlawed from slapping their children, one of Europe's top human rights officials said today.

PARENTS and guardians who slap their children are breaching their youngsters’ human rights, a hearing in Europe has decided.

Israel has resumed systematic torture of Palestinian detainees, three human rights groups say in a joint report.