Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union executive proposed on Wednesday laws to curb excessive litigation aimed at silencing...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian children should be given the surname of both parents, the Constitutional Court said on Wednesday, overturning...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his base are energized and spoiling for a new...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Canada's Ryerson University has changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University after concerns over of...

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday grappled with President Joe Biden's bid to rescind a...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet ordered the military court on Tuesday to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal from the Interior Ministry that...

By Sabine Siebold and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany announced on Tuesday its first delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the U.S. and Germany have no right to comment on Turkey's...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will hold talks Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday to discuss...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that...

By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Louisiana said on Monday that he intends to...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico detained almost 6,000 foreign migrants in a four-day span, the country's National Migration Institute (INM)...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it was "deeply troubled and disappointed" by the conviction of Turkish philanthropist Osman...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, as well as the Taliban authorities, is contributing to the suffering...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights groups on Monday raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the...

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - The leaders of Canada's military have failed to address systemic racism and discrimination over the...

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to life in prison on Monday on...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison on Monday finding him guilty of...

By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) has suspended its annual Human Rights Press...