PAMELA IZEVBEKHAI will take her bid to stay in Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights after the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed her attempt to appeal her deportation.

A demonstration is getting underway outside the US Embassy in Dublin calling for the death penalty to be dropped.

Two detainees released from Guantanamo Bay have arrived in Ireland to set up a new home, it was confirmed today.

SOME of the recent commentary on Amnesty International’s position on the Civil Partnership Bill has shown a fundamental lack of understanding of human rights.

Fresh calls were made today for Taoiseach Brian Cowen to deliver on his commitment to accept Guantanamo detainees cleared for release.

Amnesty International Ireland is calling on the Taoiseach to follow in France's footsteps and accept Guantanamo detainees into Ireland.

THE former head of the Equality Authority who resigned in protest at cuts in the organisation’s budget has said the country is in an “equality crisis“.

Almost 60 politicians have backed a worldwide campaign to ban the international trade of arms to rogue regimes or groups, it emerged today.

IRELAND should keep its doors open to asylum seekers trying to escape the horrors of Iraq, Amnesty International has urged.

IRELAND has been highlighted by human rights group Amnesty International for failing to protect vulnerable children and the mentally ill and resisting probes into United States intelligence agencies’ use of Shannon Airport.

IT is time for the Government to move from its position of ‘see no evil, hear no evil’ regarding renditions. The simple fact is that the Irish authorities demand little information regarding, and exercise little control over, what or who is transiting its territory, especially in foreign ‘civilian’ aircraft.

A US intelligence chief says waterboarding “would be torture” if used against him or if someone under interrogation was actually taking water into their lungs.

Ireland has no strategy in place to deal with its obligations under the World Programme for Human Rights Education, a cross-border education conference heard today.

AMNESTY International has accused the Government of failing to meet its human rights obligations.

AMNESTY International said yesterday Irish companies were involved in the supply of deadly weapons to conflicts going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Amnesty International today linked Irish companies to the supply of deadly weapons to conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

THE human rights of children in Ireland came under fire yesterday in an international report.

LOCAL authorities will be legally obliged to come up with homeless action plans, as the Government’s homeless strategies are to be given a legal basis to ensure that the housing and support needs of people who are homeless are met.

THE Government’s failure to prioritise homelessness in this year’s budget was a missed opportunity to help some of the most vulnerable people in the country, charities said.

The Simon Communities of Ireland has expressed their disappointment that the Government did not prioritise social housing in this year’s budget.

The Simon Community says the proposed changes to the rental allowance scheme should be put on hold until the Government can guarantee that it won't cause homelessness.

The introduction of restrictions on rent supplement is angering groups in the community and voluntary sector.

CADGING a few cigarettes from Dublin Simon Community volunteers on the soup run will soon be a thing of the past.

THE Constitution should be changed to enshrine properly the right to housing and force the Government to be accountable to its citizens and public bodies, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

The Simon Community has warned that official statistics relating to homelessness in Ireland grossly underestimate the real problem.

HOUSING group Simon says it has to rely on generous donations from the public to fund many essential services to the homeless because it claims the Government reneged on its promises.

Homeless organisations call on new TD’s to solve housing crisis