Proposals to control the amount of information available to families bereaved during the North's conflict are playing God with the interests of justice, a human rights group has claimed.

THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, has criticised the Irish Government for fighting attempts to provide rights for disabled people as it prepares to host the Special Olympics.

The International Red Cross has dismissed President George W Bush's promise that Taliban fighters will be covered by the Geneva Convention.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson is to receive an honorary degree from the Dublin Institute of Technology today.