Human Rights / Civil Rights

DAKAR (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada announced on Friday it would resettle Afghan interpreters, embassy staff and their...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts urged UNESCO on Friday not to grant World Heritage Site...

By Pak Yiu and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Vincent Fichot has not eaten in nearly two weeks. The 39-year-old...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan called on the United Nations on Friday to investigate whether India used Israeli-made...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday the United State was slandering its efforts to pursue criminal suspects overseas, after...

By Caroline Pailliez and Clotaire Achi TREMBLAY-EN-FRANCE, France (Reuters) - Working from his one-room apartment near Paris airport, Jerome Rodrigues...

By Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department moved on Thursday to drop all charges against a Chinese researcher...

QUITO (Reuters) -At least 22 inmates died and several police were injured during riots at two of Ecuador's largest penitentiaries,...

By Matt Spetalnick and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Cuban security minister...

By Dawit Endeshaw and Maggie Fick ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Attacks by Tigrayan fighters in Ethiopia's Afar region have forced over...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece was searching for migrants who went missing after their sailing boat sank off the island of...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Former United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay will head an international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes...

By Michel Rose and Dan Williams PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron has changed his mobile phone and phone number...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions on Cuba target those responsible for...

By Donny Kwok and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police arrested five people on Thursday on sedition charges,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday announced a special envoy to help coordinate U.S. assistance in Haiti, including...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow complained that Ukraine was blocking water supplies to Russian-annexed Crimea in a lawsuit at Europe's top...

By Francesco Guarascio and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is weighing a new package of financial aid...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that the United States should correct its mistakes instead of making baseless comments,...