Human Rights / Civil Rights

CARACAS (Reuters) - Judges on Venezuela's Supreme Justice Tribunal on Wednesday named Gladys Gutierrez - who is under sanction by...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years for paying...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government's indigenous affairs agency Funai said on Wednesday that it is looking into a report...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union executive proposed on Wednesday laws to curb excessive litigation aimed at silencing...

LONDON (Reuters) - Five British police officers will face a gross misconduct hearing after they stopped, searched and handcuffed two...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's once lauded COVID-19 response took a hit on Wednesday, when a High...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Canada's Ryerson University has changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University after concerns over of...

ESTELI, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Beaten down by the lack of work in Nicaragua, Martha Martinez plans to migrate to the...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling party-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday named 20 magistrates to the country's revamped Supreme Justice Tribunal...

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish opposition leaders vowed to overturn jail sentences against philanthropist Osman Kavala...

(Reuters) - The United States and its allies pledged new packages of ever heavier weapons for Ukraine as the war...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to U.N. and International Committee for the...

By Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The influential chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticized...

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday grappled with President Joe Biden's bid to rescind a...

(Reuters) - The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which claimed a deadly attack on Chinese citizens in Karachi on Tuesday, is...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal from the Interior Ministry that...

MADRID (Reuters) - The head of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation said on Tuesday that he hoped member states...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office has sent an advanced team to the Chinese city of Guangzhou where...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the U.S. and Germany have no right to comment on Turkey's...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will hold talks Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday to discuss...