Human Rights / Civil Rights

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has proposed legislation that aims to discourage couples from having...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Clashes between police and a gang in northwestern Caracas this week have left at least 26 dead,...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Supporters of Iran's exiled opposition rallied in Berlin and elsewhere on Saturday to demand the prosecution of the...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African police said on Saturday that 28 people had been arrested and one of the country's biggest...

By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Police shot dead a Mapuche man in Chile's Araucania province on Friday, stoking tensions with...

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - The owner of a food-processing factory in Bangladesh was arrested for murder on Saturday...

MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish court remanded three people in custody on Friday on suspicion of beating a man to death...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - A Moroccan court in Casablanca on Friday handed a five-year jail sentence to Moroccan dissident journalist...

ROME (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will send senior federal law enforcement officials to Haiti as soon as possible to help...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin public transport operator BVG will stop using the German term "schwarzfahren" (or "blackriding") to describe travelling...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime,...

By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - The United Nations and aid agencies can find workarounds to deliver cross-border aid into...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty-two percent of Russians support the extremism ban on jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's political network while...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that a Sudanese suspect can be charged with...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden's frustrations with Afghanistan boiled over more than a decade ago, and they...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The sentencing on human trafficking charges of two Egyptian women with large followings on social media sites...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's government has proposed the introduction of personal sanctions against 52 Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko's...

By Moira Warburton (Reuters) - Canada's Assembly of First Nations (AFN) elected a woman as national chief for the first...

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook "misplaced" guidance on an important exemption to its rules on dangerous individuals and organizations...