A decision to refuse a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing is to be challenged in court.

Peru drugs mule Michaella McCollum’s repatriation to a Northern Ireland jail has been given the go-ahead by the head of the prison service in Belfast.

A Catholic religious order has accepted notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth abused children while they were in the care of nuns in the North, a lawyer told a public inquiry yesterday.

Tyrone woman, Michaella McCollum, who was jailed for drug smuggling in Peru last year is to be transferred to a prison in the North.

A legal challenge is likely if Northern Ireland is left as the only part of the UK without marriage rights for same-sex couples, Amnesty International has warned.

Efforts to deal with the North’s troubled past have failed, Amnesty International claimed.

Amnesty International

The authorities in the North have failed to deal with the legacy of the past, human rights campaigners claimed today.

A former bishop has been criticised for unsatisfactory responses to child abuse allegations and risky behaviour of priests.

World famous philosopher Noam Chomsky is to visit Belfast later this year to deliver a lecture on human rights, Amnesty international announced today.

The North was urged today to provide a home for prisoners freed from Guantanamo Bay.

Some unionist criticisms of the proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland are factually incorrect, the Human Rights Commission claimed today.

Two vulnerable women have been saved from human traffickers in the North, it was revealed today.

The North's schools are being offered a Swedish solution to indiscipline in the classroom – respect for human rights.

Almost half of students in the North believe women who flirt only have themselves to blame if they are later raped, new research indicated today.

THE Government is expected to face fierce criticism from the United Nations next month over its suspected complicity with US rendition of prisoners through Shannon.

Amnesty International has been staging a demonstration in Belfast this afternoon in protest at President Bush's visit tomorrow.

Human rights protesters today urged the North's politicians to tackle US President George Bush on the issue of prisoner treatment when he visits Belfast tomorrow.

US President George W Bush today faced demands from Parliamentarians on both sides of the border to shut its controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

The British Home Office faced demands today for the release of two Nigerian families who settled in the North and are being held in a detention centre awaiting deportation.

Martin McGuinness will today be briefed on China’s catalogue of human rights abuses.

Human rights campaigners today called on the police in the North to learn from the experience of their American counterparts and bin plans to introduce taser guns.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board today extended the consultation period over the introduction of 50,000-volt Taser guns following pressure from human rights campaigners.