Two-time Olympian Noah Hoffman and Amnesty Ireland’s Colm O’Gorman speak to The42 about the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Amnesty boss Colm O’Gorman has accused drug companies of ‘reprehensible scaremongering’.

Chechen authorities immediately denied the claims.

A new report said some leaders are using “bully tactics” to “demonise and persecute” vulnerable people.

O’Gorman, who was among the invited guests at the castle, tweeted in response to the pontiff’s words.

Pope Francis is expected to meet survivors of clerical abuse this weekend.

A demonstration of solidarity with those who have been abused is being organised to coincide with the Pope’s visit.

Health Minister Simon Harris stopped by Moore Street today to launch the ‘It’s Time to Talk’ referendum campaign.

The organisation is seeking legal advice about an ongoing dispute over a €137,000 grant it received.

People accused of supporting Boko Haram are being brutally tortured in Cameroon.

Halawa has been imprisoned in the Egyptian capital for 1,418 days – nearly four years.

Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.

Theresa May is talking about ‘ripping up’ human rights laws – so how important is it that she doesn’t?

A new report shows that hundreds of students, political activists and protesters have vanished.

Under the deal, all new irregular migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back to Turkey.

A recent survey shows most people in Ireland want the grounds for legal access to abortion to be widened.

“One woman told us how she was calculating how to throw herself in front of a truck or which bridge to jump off.”

A wonderful montage.

The Irish people have voted for same-sex marriage but some campaigners deserve a special mention.

#FamilyMatters will make your heart burst.

Amnesty International believe the Government is doing everything it can to secure his release.

New trailer from The Queen of Ireland doc shows how Rory O’Neill as Panti “spoke the truth above the heads of the political classes, straight to the people of Ireland”.

Amnesty International is calling on the UN to immediately impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and Palestinian armed groups.

The motion at the organisation’s annual conference this weekend was unanimously defeated.

The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty was signed this time last year.

Amnesty International say it is due to a large number of people being put to death in Iran and Iraq.

Seventy one percent of people questioned by Amnesty International believe we should be able to hold the Government to account for human rights failures, including taking it to court.

Meanwhile, Colm O’Gorman has said he was “stunned” by how the situation had developed.

Enda Kenny has acknowledged Saudi Arabia’s election to the UN Human Rights Council, but the government won’t say if concerns about human rights issues are being raised with leaders there or in Qatar and UAE this week.

Amnesty International says European funding to secure Libyan borders is resulting in ‘holding centres’ where abuses occur.

Unless rape, incest, risk to a woman’s health and fatal foetal abnormality are included in Ireland’s abortion law, Amnesty International’s 2013 report notes Ireland is off base.

Amnesty International Ireland says the Magdalenes report reveals “major human rights abuses” and demands urgent action.

Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International said that this gives the Irish Government an opportunity to play a greater role in tackling some of the major human rights issues in the world today.

Amnesty International Ireland will collect signatures hoping to prevent the execution of Anthony Haynes in Texas this month.

Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Colm O’Gorman picks the first major speech of the president who saw Czechoslovakia become the Czech Republic.

Tonight is the deadline for the draft of a new global deal to regulate the arms trade – but progress has been slow.