The UN’s human rights office has said three men recently sentenced to death in the Palestinian territory of Gaza were executed unlawfully.

The UN’s top human rights official has urged the international community to take “immediate measures” to protect civilians in Syria as the death toll from the anti-government unrest rose above 3,000.

HAITIAN police led ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier out of his hotel and took him to court without saying whether he was being charged with crimes committed under his brutal regime.

Germany has evacuated 89 westerners, including 31 Americans and 40 Europeans, from the violence-torn city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan.

President Mary McAleese will travel for Strasbourg today to mark the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe.

Europe’s governments are under pressure today to back their words of support for Barack Obama with action to help the new US President close Guantanamo Bay.

Europe’s human rights watchdog is conducting a five-day investigation next week into the human rights situation in Ireland.

Europe’s human rights watchdog is conducting a five-day investigation next week into the human rights situation in the Republic of Ireland.

MOUNTING global clamour for the US terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be shut down over blatant human rights abuse there must not go unheeded by America.

EUROPE’S leading human rights body has come out in support of recent calls by the Irish Human Rights Commission for the Irish authorities to search US aircraft landing in the Republic.

Separatists in southern Thailand urged all Muslims to rise up and warned today that the killing of 108 militants by security forces this week would be paid for “with blood and tears.”

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticised Israel for refusing to allow her to lead a fact-finding mission into the Jenin refugee camp.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said prisoner of war status should be conferred on the suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members being held at a US naval base in Cuba.

The UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, is urging the Government to commit troops to a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has expressed deep concern about the condition of Afghanistan's civilian population after a week of US and British air strikes.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has