Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Umit Bektas ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish police clashed with protesters around Istanbul's main Taksim Square on Tuesday and 170 people...

(Reuters) - A Russian airstrike hit a nitric acid tank in the frontline city of Sievierodonetsk, local governor Serhiy Gaidai...

(Reuters) - A Russian airstrike hit a nitric acid tank in the frontline city of Sievierodonetsk, local governor Serhiy Gaidai...

(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday welcomed a sixth package of European Union sanctions against Russia but criticised...

(Reuters) - Ukraine is working on an international U.N.-led operation with navies of third countries to ensure a safe trade...

LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday he has been charged in a new criminal case...

By Andrew Cawthorne (Reuters) - When a desperate and bleeding 17-year-old girl walked into his rural health centre, Kenyan medic...

By Renee Maltezou and Deborah Kyvrikosaios ATHENS (Reuters) - Raised in rural Greece, queer artist and author Sam Albatros recalls...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Amnesty International has called on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to release a group of dissidents...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's data protection regulator called on Tuesday for police and prosecutors to stop treating rape victims as...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied threatened on Monday to suspend the country's membership of the...

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) - Two leading Cuban artist-dissidents faced their first day of trial on Monday after being...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A day of national mourning to commemorate victims of a collapsed building in the Iranian city of...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A trip by U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet's to China fell short of expectation to provide...

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities freed several dozen political detainees on Monday though others remain jailed, a...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will make it faster and easier for critics of the Russian government to come and live...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Efforts by Switzerland to refresh its free trade agreement with China have stalled as Bern takes a more...

By Jorge Nieto TIJUANA (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants performed an opera in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and several prominent figures from the...

By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China...