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.

The head of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission should be removed from office, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley claimed today.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley is to meet the mother of Columba McVeigh, one of a number of people abducted by the IRA whose body has not been found.

Europe’s top human rights watchdog sharply criticised France’s law enforcement and jail systems in a report today, saying prisons throughout the country were overcrowded and in a bad state.

British government plans to allow on-the-run terrorists suspected of crimes to return home to Northern Ireland are being referred to the European Commission, it was announced tonight.

The assistant director of the Traveller resource centre Pavee Point is one of two people being questioned by gardaí after being arrested during a protest in Dublin.

The Human Rights Commission has written to the Department of Justice warning of the dangers of holding a referendum on citizenship rights.

Even though this country signed the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) more than half a century ago, it has not yet been incorporated into our domestic law.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has taken a final swipe at the US before leaving her position.