Amnesty International has joined the families of the Omagh bomb victims in calling for a full, independent cross-border investigation into the 1998 bombing.
The Real IRA attack in the Co Tyrone town claimed the lives of 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins.
The Omagh Support and Self Help Group is to hold a press conference today to give details of a major review of all police and other inquiries into the attack.
Next week marks the 15th anniversary of the bombing and pressure on the British government to agree to an inquiry is likely to intensify.
Amnesty's Northern Ireland programme director Patrick Corrigan has said the families bereaved and those injured by the bomb are still left seeking the full truth, and wondering if it could have been prevented.
Mr Corrigan said questions remain outstanding about alleged state failures in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the bomb.
In particular, he said, there are unanswered questions concerning the gathering and sharing of intelligence material between domestic and international agencies, including the RUC, MI5, the FBI and the gardaí.
Former Northern Ireland police ombudsman Nuala O'Loan and Bob Quick, the former assistant commissioner of specialist operations at Metropolitan Police Service, are to meet some of the relatives of those who were killed today.
Representatives of all the main political parties in Northern Ireland are also expected to meet with members of the group.
Copies of the specially commissioned review have been with the British and Irish governments for over a year.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers was briefed last February and the report is also with the Spanish government. Two of the dead and 11 of the 200 injured were from Spain.
None of the findings that claim significant investigative and intelligence failures have been disclosed.
The report was prepared by a former Scotland Yard detective who was once part of Ms O'Loan's investigative team when she was police ombudsman.
She carried out her own investigation and was highly critical of the RUC probe, especially in the aftermath of the bombing.
Several men have faced charges in connection with the attack, but nobody has ever been convicted of the murders.
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