Yemen’s Torture Camps. Human Rights Watch reports about the abuse of migrants by human traffickers in a climate of impunity.

A severe shortfall in international support has left many Syrian refugees in Lebanon unable to access crucial medical care, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The situation is so desperate that in some cases refugees have resorted to returning to Syria to receive the treatment they need.

The UN has appealed for US$1.7 billion for Lebanon in 2014, as part of a US$4.2 billion UN appeal for Syrian refugees, yet only a pitiful 17 per cent of the funds have so far been secured.

"Hospital treatment and more specialized care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon is woefully insufficient, with the situation exacerbated by a massive shortage of international funding. Syrian refugees in Lebanon are suffering as a direct result of the international community’s shameful failure to fully fund the UN relief programme in Lebanon." says Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Thematic Issues at Amnesty International. 

The full Amnesty International report "Agonizing choices: Syrian refugees in need of health care in Lebanon" can be downloaded here.

The study "Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate", released today on a high-level in Washington D.C., is the first to examine the effects of the slow-motion collapse of the Western Antarctica ice sheet on future food security reports the Guardian. It references to two independent studies on climate change stating that Western Antarctica ice sheet was unstoppable and could lead to sea-level rise of up to four metres over the coming centuries. Rising sea levels would displace millions of people from low-lying coastal areas like Bangladesh, Vietnam or Egypt affecting major agricultural areas.  

By 2050 world population will need 60% more food. However, in terms of absolute land loss, China would be at risk of losing more than 3 million hectares. Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar could lose more than 1 million hectares, the report said.

The increasing agricultural yields of the last 50 years have already slowed down or plateaued – even before climate change is taken into account. By mid-century, those declines will make it increasingly difficult for farmers to maintain the increases in crop yields needed to feed a growing population, concludes Suzanne Goldenberg in the Guardian.

Martial law has been imposed in Thailand, handing the military supreme power and threatening the human rights of Thai citizens.

Amnesty International is reporting that several news media outlets have been shut down since martial law came into play yesterday, as a result of months of political turmoil which have claimed 28 lives so far.

The military insisted they were not staging a coup, but attempting to restore order, inviting both sides of the heated political discourse to negotiate.

Among the military's new powers include the ability to confiscate property and to search and detain people without a warrant. As well as this, the military will have impunity if citizens claim compensation as a result.

The International Lesbian and Gay Association (Ilga) reports about the discrimination of gay people around the world. Ilga's recent report reveals that there is actually no country where LGBT people have equal rights as heterosexual people. According to new research about 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is punishable by imprisonment, lashes or even death the Guardian reports. 

Five countries – Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen – still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.

Anti-Chinese riots broke out in Vietnam last week over long-standing territorial disputes, with two Chinese killed and 140 injured when Chinese businesses were attacked.

Today two Chinese passenger ships arrived in Vung Ang port to evacuate those fearing for their safety.

The protests, which are rare in communist Vietnam, are over a Chinese oil rig which is drilling in disputed sea space. The vietnamese government claims that there are also Chinese warships in the same area.

Another three vessels are on their way to Vietnam to collect fearful Chinese, according to Xinhua news agency, which reports that around 3000 people have already left the country.

290 people were flown back to China on Sunday on a special chartered flight, while 16 critically injured Chinese were taken by medical flight.

A woman has been sentenced to hang in Sudan after she married a Christian man from South Sudan.

Charged with apostasy, or the abandonment of one's faith, Meriam Yehya says she has never been Muslim.

Islam is the dominant religion in Sudan, and the religion of Yehya's father, who she says was absent from her upbringing. Her mother is Christian.

The court gave her three days to pull out of the marriage, but when she refused she was sentenced to hang.

As Yehya is currently pregnant, Islam law dictates that she cannot have her sentence carried out for another two years, allowing her to give birth and breastfeed her child.

The court also sentenced her to 100 lashes as punishment for adultery, because her marriage is not valid under Islamic law. The BBC reports that this will also not be carried out until she has given birth.

International human rights organisations have condemned the Sudanese legal system for preventing Yehya from the freedom to choose her own religion.

Yehya's lawyers are planning an appeal.

Thirty years after the ground-breaking UN Convention Against Torture was adopted, more than a hundred states continue to torture. Amnesty International's briefing provides an overview of the use of torture in the world today. It looks at when and why torture is inflicted and at the most common methods used. It shows why government denials that torture occurs ring hollow and why Amnesty International’s global campaign to Stop Torture is still so urgently needed in 2014.

Rescuers in Soma, Turkey, are fighting to reach trapped miners after a power explosion set off a fire yesterday, which is still blazing today.

The death toll currently stands at 232.

More than 200 workers are still thought to be underground, while more than 360 have been saved by a rescue team reaching into the hundreds.

Staff at the mine had been trained to use gas masks in the event of an explosion, assuming that they would not need the masks for more than 45 minutes.