Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's leftist President Pedro Castillo has signaled a tougher stance on protests against mining...

By Soo-hyang Choi and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's top court overturned on Thursday a 2019 military court...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark is in talks with Rwanda about setting up a new procedure for transferring asylum seekers to the...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecution says it has found no evidence of criminal violence in the death of an...

BARCELONA (Reuters) -Catalonia's regional leader will ask police to investigate alleged spying by the Spanish government, he said on Tuesday,...

MADRID (Reuters) -Catalonia's regional leader accused the Spanish government on Monday of spying on its citizens after a rights group...

PARIS (Reuters) - Climate change activists forced the closure of a main square in central Paris on Saturday to protest...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -A Taiwanese activist jailed in China returned to Taiwan on Friday after completing a five-year sentence. Li Ming-che,...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia's parliament passed a long-awaited bill on Tuesday to tackle sexual violence, aimed at building...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is increasingly hearing accounts of rape and sexual violence in...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Emboldened by his landslide electoral victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has raised the...

By Jake Spring (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 15% in March from a year earlier, preliminary government...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region of waging a...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Violence against the press in Mexico rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of President...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Malian troops and suspected Russian fighters allegedly executed around 300 civilian men over five days during a...

By Stephen Farrell LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A leading rights group said on Sunday it had documented "apparent war crimes" committed...

(This Mar 31 story corrects spelling of name in third paragraph) MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. government should take...

By Laura Gottesdiener and Lizbeth Diaz REYNOSA, Mexico (Reuters) -News the United States is poised to end a pandemic-related border...