Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's largest teachers' union said on Tuesday it would disband, days after it was criticised...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she supports the implementation of a mainland Chinese...

By Natalia Zinets, William James and Elizabeth Piper KYIV/LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday a Belarusian...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her...

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order imposing...

By Ijeoma Ezekwere ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Southeastern Nigerian city centres were deserted on Monday as many people stayed at...

By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday a Belarusian sprinter who defected at the Olympic Games...

(Reuters) - Protests against Myanmar's military government broke out across the nation on Sunday, the anniversary of the bloody suppression...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Lyubov Sobol, a prominent ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, has left Russia days after being sentenced...

HARARE (Reuters) - The United Nations has condemned the practise of child marriage in Zimbabwe following the death of a...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's justice secretary said on Sunday that a mainland Chinese law to counter foreign sanctions...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega of taking new "undemocratic, authoritarian actions" after...

By Jiraporn Kuhakan and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) -More than a thousand Thai anti-government protesters clashed with police on Saturday,...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) -The Brunei diplomat appointed by a Southeast Asian regional bloc as its special envoy to Myanmar...

By Alicja Ptak WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will do away with a disciplinary system for judges which the EU's top court...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary ordered shops on Friday to sell children's books seen as promoting homosexuality in "closed wrapping", stepping up...

By Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Ivan Duque looks likely to win approval for a long-delayed tax bill...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of Myanmar civil society groups on Friday rejected the appointment of a special envoy by the Association...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Friday suspended the implementation of a government order to ban the dissemination of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court gave the brother of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a one-year suspended sentence on Friday...