Human Rights / Civil Rights

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will send black boxes of a Lockheed C-130 aircraft that crashed at the weekend to...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwaiti authorities arrested a political activist and prominent poet over tweets criticising the government, his family said...

By Ayhan Uyanik and Riham Alkousaa MUNICH (Reuters) -As the first transgender candidate for Germany's parliament, Tessa Ganserer doesn't mince...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator called on states on Wednesday to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar's...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The EU's efforts to force Hungary to give up a new law banning content in schools that...

By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) -A top U.N. human rights official has deplored the death in custody of an...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first...

By Libby George and Abraham Achirga KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write...

By Anita Komuves and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has fined the distributor of a children's book about same-sex...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has been rocked by the disclosures of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian authorities have sought an international arrest warrant for the son of ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first indigenous Canadian to assume the post of governor general addressed the public...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's human rights commission (CNDH) has accused migration authorities of keeping nearly 90 people in overcrowded...

(Corrects how Hakiki identifies and makes clear references are to the broader LGBT+ rather than transgender community) By Ece Toksabay...

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italy has loosened restrictions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan police have detained at least five opposition leaders, including a presidential hopeful, deepening a sweeping crackdown of...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Tuesday they had arrested three men over the killing of Samuel Luiz, who...

By Pilar Olivares and Jimin Kang RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Felipe Luther spends his afternoons studying for a degree...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has ordered Twitter to provide clear details on what it is doing to tackle...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday proposed amendments to the city's privacy law only concern...