Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

By shafiek tassiem JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Shopkeepers pulled down their metal shutters and foreign staff stayed out of sight as...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists on Thursday blocked two oil tankers off the coast of Denmark from transferring 100,000 tonnes...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's gang lords and their followers will face prison sentences ranging from 20 to 45...

By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court rejected on Tuesday an appeal against the execution of a Malaysian...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces have carried out joint operations with Colombian rebel group the...

By Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian human rights groups are urging voters to spoil their ballots...

By Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's junta chief on Sunday said the military would not negotiate with "terrorist" opposition forces, vowing to annihilate...

By Kate Chappell and Brian Ellsworth KINGSTON (Reuters) -Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Britain's Prince William and his wife...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's junta chief created a special command a day after last year's coup that was solely responsible for...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists on Wednesday swam in front of a vast Russian oil tanker in the Baltic Sea...

(Corrects typo in headline) By Kate Chappell and Brian Ellsworth KINGSTON (Reuters) -Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate arrived...

HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent social commentator for five years on Wednesday for anti-state activities, his...

By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration plans to launch an effort this week to...

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ronald Ssegawa said Ugandan security agents pulled him off the streets in January last...

By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court ruled on Monday that philanthropist Osman Kavala should stay in prison...

(This March. 17 story, in paragraph 8, corrects description of HALEU to high-assay, low-enriched uranium) By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters)...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian court sentenced 20 former politicians and activists to up to 10 years in prison...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two years ago in Indonesia, sexual harassment victim Baiq Nuril Maknun received a presidential...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the response by advanced countries to the Ukrainian...