The Northern Ireland Prison Service and the Human Rights Commission were at loggerheads today over where women prisoners should be housed.

An inquiry is to be held into allegations of sexual abuse at one of Northern Ireland’s top preparatory schools, it emerged today.

A new human rights chief will be appointed in Northern Ireland within months, the British government announced today.

The British government’s record on human rights came under fierce attack from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission at a major international conference today.

The chairman of the North’s Human Rights Commission has rejected demands for his resignation.

The SDLP and Sinn Féin have expressed disappointment with the North's Human Rights Commission over its attitude to the controversy surrounding its chairman, Brice Dickson.

Sinn Féin and the SDLP are due to meet officials from the North's Human Rights Commission today to raise their concerns about the behaviour of its chief executive, Brice Dickson.

THE British Government came under fire yesterday for failing to ensure the right to life was fully protected through proper investigation of all killings in the North.

Police are not doing enough to prevent loyalist attacks on Catholics in Belfast, it was claimed today.

British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to murder a Belfast lawyer, the head of Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission said today.

Protestant residents tonight offered to end the Holy Cross protests in north Belfast if Catholic children and parents went to school by bus.

Radical proposals for what a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland should contain were made today by the North's Human Rights Commission.

Sweeping changes to end discrimination and improve the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals in Northern Ireland were urged today.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission today called for a halt in the use of plastic bullets by the RUC.

Stringent new laws aimed at destroying the murky empires of Britain’s crime bosses could flout human rights legislation, it was claimed today.