Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's elections have been postponed to Nov. 7, according to local media on Wednesday, following the killing...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments said Wednesday the U.S. government is committed to supporting...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. officials held talks with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico on Tuesday to discuss immigration...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a Chinese court's sentencing of Canadian businessman Michael...

(Corrects paragraph 6 to show Andika's comment on equality in army selection was made last month, not last week) By...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands and Germany on Wednesday abruptly reversed course and said they would not for the time being...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand progressed with its plans to make it easier to change a person's sex on their...

(Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar currently have no plan to include minority Rohingya Muslims living in densely-packed camps as they...

(Reuters) -Five people jumped from an apartment building in Myanmar's main city of Yangon, killing at least two of them,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Canada's ambassador to China said he was disappointed after a Chinese court sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor...

By Alvaro Murillo San Jose (Reuters) - Costa Rica received the highest number of refugee applications from Nicaraguans in July...

(Corrects year Spavor was charged to 2019 from 'last year' in paragraph 11) By Yew Lun Tian and David Ljunggren...

By Alicja Ptak and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) - Thousands of people across Poland protested in defence of media freedoms...

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - After Konstantin Yakovlev's handball team won the Belarusian championship in 2007, they were about...

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - The Canadian ambassador to China on Tuesday condemned a Chinese court's ruling that...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Police in Thailand fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who took to the...

By Sabine Siebold and John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Six EU member states have warned the bloc's executive against halting deportations...

By Tom Balmforth and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities on Tuesday announced a criminal investigation into two allies of...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's army carried out at least 252 attacks and threats against health workers since a Feb. 1 coup,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will analyse Poland's decision to scrap a disciplinary system for judges which critics say...