Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The wives of two of the last remaining Ukrainian fighters holed up in Mariupol's...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's government and its central bank have committed human rights violations by impoverishing people through the "callous...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the government from using a colonial-era sedition law, that critics...

By Kylie Madry and Lisandra Paraguassu MEXICO CITY/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday he would...

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -An international donor conference raised $6.7 billion for Syria and its neighbours on Tuesday despite...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top court called on Tuesday for the conclusion of a long-running trial of a Palestinian aid...

By Tom Balmforth and Alexander Ratz KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine welcomed what it called an "historical turning point" as German...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China would prefer to take over neighboring Taiwan without military action but is working to get to...

(Corrects to add dropped letter in spokesperson's name) GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine researcher arrested by Iran, will be executed without a possibility of exchange...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese activist jailed in China said on Tuesday that he was subjected to forced labour and...

By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly 20...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai army said on Monday it will ban its 245,000 members from using one of Southeast...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's constitutional assembly passed articles expanding environmental rights on Saturday, but stopped short of approving a proposal...

By Peter Graff CHISINAU (Reuters) - One of the leading figures in Moldova's opposition said on Friday he plans to...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Eurpoean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday she was confident the bloc would approve...

By Kanishka Singh and Nichola Saminather TORONTO (Reuters) -Two members of Canada's Heiltsuk Nation reached a settlement on Thursday with...

By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Killings of human rights defenders in Colombia fell to 139 last year, compared with...

MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) -Germany will end its participation in the European Union training mission in Mali but is ready to...