Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Thursday sentenced seven men to between 3-1/2 and...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Four staff members from the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper were denied bail in a Hong Kong...

By Agustin Geist BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina rolled out identification cards on Wednesday for non-binary citizens, who neither identify...

By Jacob Garcia CHENALHÓ, Mexico (Reuters) - Just like the Zapatista rebels before them, the indigenous people of Chiapas state...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Protesters angry about water shortages took to the streets of southwest Iran for a sixth night in a...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - An anti-government hip hop song by some of Cuba's most popular musicians in exile...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Morocco's General Prosecutor said it will open an investigation into what it called "unfounded allegations" that the...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 332 local governments worldwide have backed a New York City-led campaign to...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's legislature, which has no opposition party, begins discussions on Wednesday on privacy laws tackling...

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hundreds of undocumented immigrants, on hunger strike in Brussels for the last two months...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's main opposition party said on Wednesday its leader had been arrested with ten other party figures,...

By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's southeastern state of Veracruz will become the fourth state in the...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday described as "shameful" reports of purported government-ordered cyber...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire on Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was...

PARIS (Reuters) - The Israeli company NSO - linked to the Pegasus spyware case - is present in Luxembourg via...

(Reuters) - UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Britain was deeply concerned by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's announcement on the...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's churches have defended those who participated in unprecedented protests and even set up...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will form a working group to examine remittances to Cuba in the wake...

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government on Tuesday approved a new "Democratic Memory" bill to tackle the legacy of General...

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission listed serious concerns about the rule of law in Poland and Hungary...