Amnesty International releases human rights report, highlighting evictions, torture and detention in Asia Pacific.

Human rights advocates are urging Indonesia to investigate the deaths of three Papua independence activists who where were killed during a protest in the country's restive province.

The Philippines files complaint to the UN against Malaysia for alleged human rights abuses on the Malaysian state of Sabah.

A prominent Cambodian journalist who was last year sentenced to 20 years in prison will be released this week.

A Bangladesh tribunal has sentenced an Islamist party leader to death for abuses during the country's 1971 independence war.

Sri Lanka's top diplomat in Australia has rejected claims Sri Lankan security forces use rape as a policy against suspected Tamil Tiger sympathisers.

Philippines pass law to compensate victims of human rights abuses under Ferdinand Marcos regime.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has ordered US special forces out of a central province, accusing Afghans working with them of committing torture and murder.

There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the death of the 12-year-old son of a Tamil Tiger rebel leader in the last weeks of Sri Lanka's civil war.

An Australian independent senator, Nick Xenophon, has called his deportation by Malaysia "curious".

Rights activists in Afghanistan fear that gains made in women's rights could be lost after international troops complete their withdrawal next year.