Navi Pillay said the leak of American field reports added to her concerns that serious breaches of international human rights law occurred in Iraq. She said the documents indicated that the US continued to transfer detainees to Iraqi forces, despite knowledge of widespread abuse. But the UN's point man on torture, Manfred Nowak, said it wasn't enough to investigate just what happened in Iraq. He urged President Barack Obama to launch a full investigation into any torture practices carried out by US military and intelligence officials, including those who handed detainees to states such as Egypt, Morocco and Syria, knowing they would be ill-treated there.
The authorities in Pakistan have allowed journalists to interview a 14-year-old boy being held in detention, who says he was trained as a suicide bomber by the Taliban. The boy told the BBC he'd been recruited by a friend who'd fought in Afghanistan. He said members of the Taliban had visited him once or twice a week to explain how to carry out attacks.
Leaders of three Latin American countries at the centre of the battle against the drugs trade have called on voters in California to reject the legalisation of marijuana. The presidents of Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia said legalising marijuana would send a contradictory message.
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The French Senate has given its final approval to plans to raise the retirement age in France from 60 to 62. The reforms have sparked weeks of protests and industrial action. Here is Christian Fraser.