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The head of a major UN study on worldwide child abuse opened a conference of government and human rights officials from 52 countries in Europe and Central Asia taking place in Slovenia Tuesday...

A private contractor for Zapata Engineering Peter Ginter - himself an ex-Marine with eight years service - has claimed he was abused by US military personnel while detained for three days. Gintner is the second to speak...

US senators Chuck Hagel and Dianne Feinstein have responded to a newly released log of a Guantanamo interrogation with anger and bewilderment. Hagel, a Vietnam Veteran, said the practices reflected in the record telling...

US Representative Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that there are members of the Bush administration who want to close the Guantanamo Bay prison...

A day after President Bush dismissed as "absurd" an Amnesty International rights report condemning the US for ill-treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ...

Recently-demoted {JURIST report] Abu Ghraib commander Colonel Janis Karpinski , formerly a reserve Brigadier General, says that she is being discriminated against and that evidence exists that top ranking officials should be held responsible for the Abu Ghraib...

The US Army is planning to issue a revised interrogations manual that will expressly limit techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison that drew outrage when publicly revealed. Army officials on Wednesday said that the...

Army investigative documents released Monday disclosed the existence of "wish lists" of harsh interrogation techniques that intelligence officials hoped to use on Iraqi detainees. The techniques, cited in various e-mails in August 2003 between interrogators and army officials, included...

John Negroponte , President Bush's selection for the new national intelligence director post, is expected to win Senate confirmation, but human rights questions dogging Negroponte from his time as ambassador to Honduras may slow the process. Confirmation hearings...

Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, once the top US commander in Iraq, authorized harsh prisoner interrogation tactics, according to a 2003 memo obtained and released by the ACLU under its ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests...