Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

CAIRO (Reuters) - The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is increasingly hearing accounts of rape and sexual violence in...

By Anthony Boadle and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation has...

By Yury Garcia GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) - Banana growers from three provinces in Ecuador blocked main roads across the South American...

By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) - It's the five years spent serving in the Ukrainian army that drives Deputy Prime...

(Reuters) -Russia on Monday demanded Google take immediate steps to remove "threats" against Russians after it said Google Translate had...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's minister of foreign affairs on Monday denounced last week's suspension of Russia from the U.N....

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's national security police arrested a veteran journalist and former contributing writer...

By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said last month that the United States...

HANOVER/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Pro-Russians on Sunday staged demonstrations in the German cities of of Frankfurt and Hanover, where they were far...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's lower house of parliament on Sunday voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from...

By Jessie Pang and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's former No. 2 official John Lee, who will...

(Reuters) - The head of Yemen's new presidential council said on Friday he would end the seven-year-long war via a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States expressed concern on Friday about reports of ethnically motivated atrocities in Ethiopia's Tigray region and...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Emboldened by his landslide electoral victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has raised the...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong former deputy leader John Lee will run in a leadership election in May, according...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's decision to transfer the case over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia was not...

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Testimony and other evidence of suspected war crimes in Ukraine after Russia's invasion must be collected from fleeing...

(Reuters) - A deputy governor at Myanmar's central bank has been shot in an attack at her home in the...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court on Friday sentenced an Australian man to five and a half years in prison...