Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

(Reuters) - Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said on Saturday he had held "open and direct" talks with Turkey's President Tayyip...

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Saturday it had so far banned 963 Americans from entering the country - including previously...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's former vice-president Jorge Glas, who served 4-1/2 years in prison on a bribery conviction...

By Rupam Jain and Saurabh Sharma MUMBAI/LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - A court case started by five Hindu women in Prime...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday,...

By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by...

(Reuters) - Eight people have been arrested on charges that they were involved in forcibly recruiting Ecuadoreans for armed groups,...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The soldier son of Uganda's long-serving President Yoweri Museveni is signalling his readiness to take over his...

By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) - When Halime El Kaakour enters Lebanon's parliament as a newly elected...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government proposed on Thursday letting its spy agency penetrate the country's famous banking secrecy to...

(Reuters) - Brazil's democracy and independence of its judiciary are under threat from the government of president Jair Bolsonaro as...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tamils who resettled in Britain after fleeing the Sri Lankan civil war held a vigil in London...

(Reuters) - A leading human rights watchdog said on Wednesday it had documented further cases of "apparent war crimes" by...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - The agreement under which Canada turns back asylum-seekers crossing from the United States...

By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW,India (Reuters) - Members of hardline Hindu groups filed petitions in a court in northern India to...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Mexico's southwestern state of Guerrero voted on Tuesday to allow abortions, making it the...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's leftist coalition government on Tuesday approved a draft bill to reinforce abortion rights and make Spain...

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda will pull troops from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in two weeks, the military said on Tuesday,...