Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

By Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - EU sanctions designed to punish veteran Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko for a sweeping political...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's centre-right Moderates offered centrists a raft of policies favoured by their mainly rural voters on Wednesday,...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is in talks with Russia and other members of the United Nations Security Council on the...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges on Wednesday convicted two men of war crimes for their role in financing and...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police re-arrested pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung after revoking her bail on Wednesday, on the...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Amnesty International said on Wednesday that Hong Kong authorities have used a new national security law to...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday that the time would come when he would name his possible...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Forced labour in Malaysia is not a widespread problem or "out of control", a senior police...

(Corrects to 'European rights court', not 'EU court' in headline) WARSAW (Reuters) -The Polish justice minister infringed on the rights...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive is considering legal action against Poland over "LGBT-free" zones set up by some...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - After a South Korean air force master sergeant accused a colleague of sex abuse...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - The Colombian government's chief negotiator on Tuesday rebuffed accusations from the leaders of...

By Pak Yiu and Anand Katakam HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities have arrested 117 people under a national...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's authorities on Tuesday found the body of a woman who had...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will allow a coalition of major opposition political parties to field candidates in upcoming elections, the...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations in Brazil advanced...

By Nathan Allen and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) -The Spanish government on Tuesday approved the draft of a bill to...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Activists in Venezuela say there is little to celebrate this LGBTI Pride month, which they say is...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police detained at least 15 people at a small Pride march in the capital Ankara on...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military authorities have dropped charges against 24 celebrities who had been declared wanted under an anti-incitement law...