Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Sabine Siebold BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - Slovenia's prime minister said on Friday Hungarian leader Viktor Orban must be allowed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on 22 people linked to Myanmar's military regime and...

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - Fighting disease, death and disillusionment, members of South Korea’s rapidly dwindling sisterhood of surviving...

By Ange Aboa BOUNA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday sentenced 10 people found guilty...

PARIS (Reuters) -French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four fashion retailers suspected of concealing "crimes against humanity" in China's...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court on Friday ordered news portal Malaysiakini to pay 550,000 ringgit ($132,179.76) in damages...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Dutch criticism of Hungary over a new law on LGBT rights reeks of a moral supremacy rooted...

By Mei Mei Chu and Chayut Setboonsarng KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's predominant human trafficking crime is forced labour, the...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of...

By Ece Toksabay and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey's largest cities on...

(Corrects day to Thursday in first paragraph) DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader promoted a hardline cleric to serve as head...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An annual U.S. State Department report released on Thursday said discriminatory...

By Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar's military on Thursday to release Nobel Laureate Aung San...

By Sabine Siebold BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) -Slovenia will act as an honest broker in European Union disputes over the rule...

MBABANE (Reuters) - The government of eSwatini has called in the army to restore order after days of violent protests...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Several leading European newspapers have refused to run a paid advertisement signed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor...

PARIS (Reuters) - Women deprived of freedom of speech or the freedom to vote should fight for their rights and...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's top court has ruled that the rights of a pro-Kurdish former lawmaker were violated by his...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An advisory panel in the Netherlands has told the government to acknowledge that the 17th-19th century transatlantic...

(Reuters) - Detained U.S. journalist Daniel Fenster appeared to have lost weight but said he was fine on Thursday as...