Human Rights / Civil Rights

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

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two Mexican journalists were killed on Monday in the eastern state of Veracruz, the state attorney...

LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The selection process for a new chief executive in Hong Kong is a source of grave...

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

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court in El Salvador jailed a woman for 30 years on Monday for killing her...

By Deborah Bloom (Reuters) -Twice daily, Yuliya Day reaches out by phone from Los Angeles to see how her mother...

By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A group of European Union parliamentarians has asked the European Commission to open negotiations...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the creation of a working group on international payments whose tasks...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Ukraine this week,...

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

By Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The stakes are high in Lebanon's election. The heavily armed...

By Belén Carreño and Gavin Jones MADRID/ROME (Reuters) - For decades, a cash-filled envelope - or "sobre" - was how...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon holds an election on May 15 that could see a shift of power that sends shockwaves...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police said on Friday it was still investigating the alleged rape and death of a...

By Alessandra Prentice ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb...

By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong's leader-in-waiting, John Lee, was endorsed for the city's top...

MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for...

KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature...

By Riham Alkousaa and Kinda Makieh BERLIN/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - For ten years, Rojin Derki hoped her brother Mohammad was still...

LIMA (Reuters) - The Peruvian government postponed a meeting scheduled for Saturday with the indigenous communities protesting Las Bambas copper...