Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday he has been charged in a new criminal case...

By Andrew Cawthorne (Reuters) - When a desperate and bleeding 17-year-old girl walked into his rural health centre, Kenyan medic...

By Renee Maltezou and Deborah Kyvrikosaios ATHENS (Reuters) - Raised in rural Greece, queer artist and author Sam Albatros recalls...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied threatened on Monday to suspend the country's membership of the...

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Allegations of sex crimes in the Canadian military should be investigated externally by civilian authorities...

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities freed several dozen political detainees on Monday though others remain jailed, a...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will make it faster and easier for critics of the Russian government to come and live...

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world's best universities in an...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Gustavo Petro, who topped voting tallies with 40.8% in Colombia's first round of...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian leftist Gustavo Petro came top during the first round of the Andean country's presidential election on...

By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China...

By Isabella Ronca and Hedy Beloucif GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) - Thousands of Poles marched to demand an end to homophobia...

MONTREAL (Reuters) -Backers of Quebec's sweeping new law to promote French usage in the Canadian province hail it as the...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A report that some politicians in Sweden represent the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK, a Kurdish militant organisation...

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 4,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia's invasion began on Feb. 24, although...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed human rights body called on Friday for the release of 16 journalists and media...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's new government said on Friday it would give temporary visas to a Sri Lankan asylum seeker...

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has not invited the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua to the...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament approved a law on Thursday that will ban normalizing relations with Israel, at a time...