Advocacy Groups / Pressure Groups / Lobbies

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial on Wednesday on charges of raping 36 women from...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been detained in Ethiopia after being deported from...

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada announced on Tuesday two agreements totalling C$40 billion ($31.5 billion)...

By Jessie Pang and Edmond Ng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong independent online publication Citizen News said on Monday...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong independent online news portal Citizen News said on Sunday it will cease operations from...

(Reuters) - The United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Britain on Friday condemned Russian court decisions to shut...

By Hidayatullah Tahjuddin KRUENG GEUKUH, Indonesia (Reuters) - More than 100 Rohingya refugees who had been adrift on a sinking...

(Reuters) - A Myanmar insurgent group said it has buried the remains of more than 30 people who were killed...

By Andrew Osborn and Mikhail Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Memorial Human Rights Centre was ordered to shut by a Moscow...

By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian human rights group Memorial said on Wednesday that he...

By Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's change of leadership in Xinjiang could indicate greater emphasis on economic development...

By Andrew Osborn and Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Supreme Court ordered the country's oldest human rights group to disband...

(Reuters) -A senior U.N. official called on Myanmar authorities to investigate the reported killing of at least 35 civilians that...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court ordered the country's best-known human rights group on Tuesday to be liquidated for breaking...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - A boat carrying scores of Rohingya refugees including women and children broke down and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Monday added two more years to a 13-year jail sentence for historian Yuri...

(Reuters) - Aid group Save the Children said it was suspending operations in Myanmar's strife-torn Kayah state after two staff...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A Harvard University professor was convicted on Tuesday of U.S. charges that he lied about...

GENEVA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that it had received 13 allegations of rape...