Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has given space on its website to a Catholic group that...

By Jessie Pang and Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - The new head of Hong Kong's Bar Association pledged on...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -A Tunisian man died in hospital on Wednesday from injuries inflicted by police, activists and...

By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) -A top Polish court adjourned on Wednesday a sitting on whether a continent-wide human rights...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparked fears among animal welfare groups...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Taiwan has paid for a lobbying contract to promote Guatemala with U.S. officials, Guatemala's government said...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's military court has released Seifeddine Makhlouf, head of the conservative Karama party, and another opposition figure,...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian government and human rights groups said they are concerned about the deteriorating...

MILAN (Reuters) - Human rights group Amnesty International urged Italy to change tough anti-COVID restrictions to avoid discrimination against unvaccinated...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's foreign minister and its government were on Friday named the 2021 arms control persons of...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -At least 78 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia in 2021, the United Nations human rights agency...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -This year's general election in Brasil will be a test for the country's democracy due to threats by...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court sentenced a former intelligence officer in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services to life...

(Reuters) - A United Nations special envoy has urged Southeast Asian countries to support international efforts to engage all sides...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will allow adopted people automatic access to their birth records for the first time under new...

(Reuters) - Amnesty International is calling on the four clubs involved in the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia this...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian Victor Escobar became the first person in the Andean country with a non-terminal illness to die by...

THAI-MYANMAR BORDER (Reuters) - Thousands of Myanmar villagers are living under makeshift tents alongside a river that borders Thailand, fearful...

By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday began returning migrants to the Mexican city of...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador on Wednesday said it allowed two Cuban journalists to enter the...