Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Dawit Endeshaw and Maggie Fick ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopian police have detained hundreds of ethnic Tigrayans in Addis...

By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Companies in the European Union can ban employees from wearing a headscarf...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has offered to share its experiences on migrant issues with Lithuania as it handles a sharp...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Pawel Florkiewicz BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) -The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Poland's system for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Four people have been arrested over online racist abuse aimed at members of the England soccer team...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A key clause in EU copyright rules complies with the bloc's regulations, an adviser...

By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets regional leaders for talks in Uzbekistan on Thursday as...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia's war in the northern region of Tigray looked set to intensify on Wednesday...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Human rights groups on Thursday called for Japan to cancel a real estate project involving Myanmar's defence...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Honduran toddler who was found alone in southern Mexico after becoming separated from his father...

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Thursday that migrants held in Libyan detention camps are subject...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday ordered the release of 101 members of a protest movement that...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition party Popular Will said on Wednesday that security forces detained family members of a Caracas...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A 2-year-old girl survived unharmed after her mother threw her to safety as they escaped a burning...

By Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The image on the alleged Iranian intelligence operative's device was chilling: A graphic showing...

KYIV (Reuters) -Belarusian security police searched offices and homes of lawyers and human rights activists on Wednesday, detaining at least...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt's highest civilian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a group of 13 people including two prominent...

ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Draghi promised reform of Italy's overcrowded and understaffed prisons on Wednesday after the publication...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top domestic spymaster said on Wednesday that there was little evidence that hostile powers such as...