Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - A lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party said on Wednesday he planned...

SKOPJE (Reuters) - North Macedonia's population has decreased by 9% in the past two decades from 2.02 million to 1.83...

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's military has killed 309 people in an eight-month-old operation against cattle rustling in...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany is ready to act a...

By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's communist government is seeking to rally support for a new family code that...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations named three human rights experts on Wednesday to investigate possible war crimes...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators scrambled on Tuesday to reach a compromise to avoid further delays before...

By Anna Koper, Joanna Plucinska and Alicja Ptak WARSAW (Reuters) - More than a month after Russia invaded, many Ukrainian...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo lost contact with a helicopter on...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.N. investigators are seeking to verify reports of mass graves thought to contain the corpses...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Germany called on Monday for a more even distribution of Ukrainian refugees...

By Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian human rights groups are urging voters to spoil their ballots...

By Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to...

(Reuters) - Russia's justice ministry on Monday added German broadcaster Deutsche Welle to a list of media organisations it has...

By Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from...

(This Mar.24 story corrects to change reference to Ahmed Harif in paragraph 17 to Ahmed, to conform with Ethiopian naming...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada is increasingly relying on temporary residents to meet its labor force needs,...

DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday that he is not confident that a...

By Anna Koper and Gerhard Mey PRZEMYSL, Poland (Reuters) - Ninety-year-old Olha Moliboha and her daughter managed to get out...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Rebellious Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia have said they will respect a ceasefire proposed by Prime Minister Abiy...