The United Nations Security Council’s response to the recent bloodshed against protesters in Syria is deeply inadequate, Amnesty International says.

Campaigners have called on governments meeting at the United Nations to ensure no weapons or munitions are sold to human rights abusers.

Amnesty International is urging authorities in Italy and the European Union to protect the human rights of thousands of Tunisians fleeing unrest in their country.

Human rights advocates have welcomed the decision by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that two men allegedly involved in a terror plot could not be deported to Pakistan.