If we are serious about ending torture and capital punishment, we must do more than make lofty promises, writes Jorge Faurie, Cecilia Malmstrom, and Tsend Munkh-Orgil

US President Donald Trump has made clear that his defence secretary’s opposition to torture would override his own belief that enhanced interrogation "does work".

It was announced yesterday that Taoiseach Enda Kenny will visit the White House for the by-now annual St Patrick’s Day expression of fealty.

President Donald Trump has declared that he believes torture works as his administration prepared a sweeping review of how America conducts the war on terror.

Russian troops have discovered mass graves in Aleppo with bodies showing signs of torture and mutilation, said the Russian Defence Ministry.

Sweeping security measures adopted in Turkey after a failed July 15 coup attempt created an environment conducive to the torture and ill-treatment of detainees despite the presence of legal safeguards, a UN expert has said.

An international human rights organisation has called for an Irish company to stop training security forces in Bahrain amid concerns about torture.

Egyptian authorities have been accused of using abductions, torture and other shocking tactics as a tool to stifle dissent.

China has rejected a call from a United Nations rights watchdog to halt torture of detainees, saying the group’s recommendations were based on unverified information and that it should “improve its work style.”

China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.

China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.

Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has refused to say whether he believes Irish prisoner Ibrahim Halawa’s claims that he has been tortured in an Egyptian jail.

Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said.

Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad’s forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him during the country’s near-three-year-old conflict, a United Nations report said.