Human Rights / Civil Rights

(Reuters) - With a seventh opposition presidential hopeful under arrest, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in a speech described his political...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada installed an indigenous woman as its governor general on Monday, the first such...

By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday the battle against...

(Corrects perpetrators of the school abductions in second paragraph to remove reference to Islamist militants) KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Kidnappers who...

By Camillus Eboh and Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian judge adjourned the treason trial of separatist leader Nnamdi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of the United States and 20 other countries on Monday condemned mass arrests in...

By Gabriel Crossley and Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -China's President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the Tibet...

By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue...

KABUL (Reuters) - Nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians were killed or injured in May and June as fighting between Taliban insurgents...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - One of the Hong Kong democracy activists who was returned from a Chinese jail after being...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she has agreed to a request from Turkish authorities to...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he was aiming to begin a dialogue with the country's political...

By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -Three Hong Kong judges will rule on Tuesday whether the protest slogan "Liberate Hong...

(Reuters) - Iran on Saturday dismissed as meddling in its internal affairs criticism by the United Nations' human rights boss...

By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Thousands of Hungarians joined the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday to support LGBTQ people...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's armed forces said on Friday that a U.S. military plane violated its airspace along the South...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise human rights issues with officials in India when he...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that people could not be blamed for protesting over...

PARIS (Reuters) - French authorities said on Friday they had rescued a boatload of 42 migrants in the English channel...

(Reuters) - A protest erupted at a prison in Myanmar's commercial capital of Yangon on Friday against what activists said...