Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine volunteers are trying to bring a little cheer to children living...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to defend abortion rights as the decades-old battle over...

DUBAI (Reuters) -A Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to life in prison for trying to overthrow the government...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities have cleared a makeshift encampment of migrants in the northern border city of Reynosa that...

LIMA (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers from a massive copper mine took to the streets of Peru's capital on Tuesday,...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes that sexual and reproductive health and rights are...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States would like the U.N. Security Council to vote during May...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada's Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister affirmed on Tuesday their support of women's...

By Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) - Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the Red Cross in Ukraine said on Tuesday that an unknown number of civilians...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will donate 13 armoured vehicles to help evacuate civilians from besieged areas in the east of...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain supports the right for women to have access to safe and legal abortions, a spokesman for...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's prime minister has urged Myanmar's top general to allow a special Southeast Asian envoy access...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian indigenous communities occupying a key copper mine will agree to talks with officials...

By Jenna Zucker and Blair Gable (Reuters) -Police in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, arrested several people on Friday, after a...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed rights commission said on Monday it was investigating a video showing a group of...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday that the death toll of civilians killed in...

KYIV (Reuters) - Buses seeking to evacuate more civilians from Mariupol have not yet reached the agreed pickup point, the...

KYIV (Reuters) - A Russian rocket strike hit a strategically important bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odesa region...