Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeast Nigeria where an Islamist...

By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian police said on Friday they will charge a 26-year-old man after a former...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling military has offered to waive charges against some protesters involved in demonstrations or strikes if they...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have charged a DJ with violating the country's controversial pornography law after the 28-year-old staged...

By Michael Martina, Ted Hesson and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday offered temporary "safe haven" to...

By Angus Berwick (Reuters) - In late 2020, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni faced a fresh challenge to his 35-year...

By Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov has registered as a candidate for next month's...

(Reuters) -A Myanmar militia force fighting the army in a central part of the country and residents have found at...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first group of Afghan interpreters, embassy staff and families that Canada is resettling amid threats of...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has summoned the Belarusian envoy in Brussels and held talks with the Iraqi government...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny introduced on Thursday a new way to accept online donations...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will adopt a sanctions law similar to the U.S. Magnitsky Act that allows targeted financial sanctions...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean lawmakers took further votes on Wednesday to overhaul the country's dictatorship-era water code, aiming to replace...

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan authorities have detained a former beauty queen bidding to contest the November presidential elections, her party said,...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Salvatore Mancuso and Rodrigo Londono, former enemies from Colombia's internal conflict, appeared together...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has landed safely in Warsaw, Polish deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz said on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The No.2 U.S. diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, spoke on Wednesday with a representative of Myanmar's...

By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) -Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have appointed Brunei's second minister...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's lawyers against a decision...