Last month the UN's top rights body also called on the security council to act against officials responsible for a litany of crimes against humanity in North Korea.
Europe's top rights body has said mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.
Employees in Europe might want to think carefully about using the internet to send private messages during office hours after Europe's top rights court ruled on Tuesday that companies could monitor workers' online communications.
Europe's top rights body has also rejected mass surveillance, calling for targeted, proportionate intelligence gathering.
Australia's top rights official says the situation at the Christmas Island asylum detention centre has "significantly deteriorated", leaving people "plagued by despair".
Earlier this year Europe's top rights body, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, adopted a resolution against mass surveillance, characterizing it as a threat to democracy and human rights.
