Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed three convicts on Tuesday, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime...

By Edmond Ng and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -Pro-Beijing candidates swept to victory in an overhauled "patriots"-only legislative election...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Japan on Monday to halt a military study-abroad program in which cadets...

By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong holds a legislative assembly election on Sunday in which candidates have...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a proposal to set up an international expert...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained...

By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lebanon has for the first time eased restrictions on thousands of undocumented...

DAKAR (Reuters) - An international human rights group on Thursday accused separatist fighters in Cameroon's Anglophone regions of systematically targeting...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Four migrants from Syria and Iraq were rescued from a swamp in Poland near the border with...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has changed the way it carries out capital punishment in response to...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday to ban imports from China's...

(Reuters) - A photographer detained after an anti-coup protest in Myanmar's biggest city last week has died while in custody,...

HANOI (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam jailed a journalist and prominent dissident for nine years on Tuesday for anti-state...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that Russia had not done enough to curb...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A group of Senegalese lawmakers has drafted a law that would tighten already repressive laws against same-sex...

By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's national police are responsible for the deaths of 11 people during anti-police...

By Jessie Pang and Edmond Ng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Eight Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were sentenced to up to...

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris congratulated Xiomara Castro on her historic victory as Honduras’ first female...

LAUSANNE (Reuters) -Two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee...