Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed human rights body called on Friday for the release of 16 journalists and media...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Books about the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his brutal era of martial...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The risk of going hungry in Brazil is higher than ever, as the percentage of people...

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating...

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The main Dutch journalists' union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging the European Union's...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara is slated to stand trial in a Cuban court at...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oxfam America, Partners in Health and other civil society groups urged U.S. President Joe...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held his first meeting as leader with U.S. President Joe Biden on...

(Reuters) - A leading human rights watchdog said on Wednesday it had documented further cases of "apparent war crimes" by...

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba´s vice foreign minister denounced the Biden administration's partial rollback of Trump-era restrictions on...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The number of people officially listed as disappeared in Mexico has risen to more than 100,000,...

TIJUANA (Reuters) - A large Mexican family crossed into the United States on Sunday seeking asylum after threats from suspected...

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -Greenpeace protesters have blocked the entry of a Greek tanker into a southern English port...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban lawmakers on Sunday approved a new penal code for the country that is being critiqued by...

By Praveen Menon CANBERRA (Reuters) -Activists at one of the world's longest-running protests for the rights of indigenous people are...

By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration hopes a first-ever Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit hosted...

LIMASSOL, Cyprus (Reuters) -A new dynamic has emerged in protecting the rights of the LGBTQ+ communities across Europe, but significant...

By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian gang members raped women and girls and burned people alive...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court in El Salvador jailed a woman for 30 years on Monday for killing her...

(Clarifies the contextual meaning of gender identity terms in paragraph 10) (Reuters) -Keila Simpson, a Brazilian activist for trans people...