Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

WINNIPEG, Canada (Reuters) -Protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in the Canadian city of Winnipeg...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday said a South Korean man wanted on embezzlement...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on 22 people linked to Myanmar's military regime and...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday said that disagreement with the European Union over the Northern...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The 50-year-old man who stabbed a Hong Kong policeman on the anniversary of the city's return...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court denied bail on Friday to pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung, who was re-arrested...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court on Friday ordered news portal Malaysiakini to pay 550,000 ringgit ($132,179.76) in damages...

By Mei Mei Chu and Chayut Setboonsarng KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's predominant human trafficking crime is forced labour, the...

By Ece Toksabay and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey's largest cities on...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Police deployed in the streets of Hong Kong in large numbers on Thursday to prevent protests on...

(Corrects day to Thursday in first paragraph) DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader promoted a hardline cleric to serve as head...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An annual U.S. State Department report released on Thursday said discriminatory...

By Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar's military on Thursday to release Nobel Laureate Aung San...

By Sabine Siebold BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) -Slovenia will act as an honest broker in European Union disputes over the rule...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar's biggest city Yangon on Thursday, setting fire to an...

PARIS (Reuters) - Women deprived of freedom of speech or the freedom to vote should fight for their rights and...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An advisory panel in the Netherlands has told the government to acknowledge that the 17th-19th century transatlantic...

By Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will downgrade Malaysia to the worst...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's withdrawal on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women is not a step...

(.) (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong a year...