Human Rights / Civil Rights

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday acquitted 33 people, including two Bloomberg reporters and other journalists from local...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youths at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on...

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Friday increased a jail sentence to five years,...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A group of unidentified individuals on Thursday set fire to two dozen trucks and machinery in Chile's...

By Maria Caspani (Reuters) -Conservative lawmakers have passed a flurry of bills this year directed at transgender youth, including measures...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada said on Thursday it is lifting a ban on blood donations from sexually...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights committee said on Thursday that Brazil graft investigators violated due process in bringing a...

(Reuters) - A Russian pilot who returned to Moscow from the United States this week as part of a prisoner...

By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that a ruling by Europe's top court for...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government is likely to send a forensic team from the national military police to Ukraine...

By Oliver Griffin PUERTO WILCHES, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's anti-fracking activists are facing increased threats and violence as two investigative...

KYIV (Reuters) - The bodies of 1,150 civilians have been recovered in Ukraine's Kyiv region since Russia's invasion and 50-70%...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged countries at the United Nations on Wednesday...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - A group run by North Korean defectors working to promote human rights in the...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore authorities late on Wednesday defended a decision to execute a Malaysian drug trafficker, in response to...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has intensified efforts to push Israel to respect the historic status quo of...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada is locking up more people in immigration detention without charge after the...

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Families of victims of extrajudicial executions committed by Colombian soldiers asked perpetrators to...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Canadian lawmakers voted unanimously on Wednesday to call Russia's attacks in Ukraine a "genocide", with members...

By Alessandra Prentice and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a pro-Ukraine...