Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will downgrade Malaysia to the worst...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's withdrawal on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women is not a step...

By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed overnight in a...

(.) (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong a year...

By Gabriel Crossley and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - People gathered on Thursday in Beijing to take photographs of...

By Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - EU sanctions designed to punish veteran Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko for a sweeping political...

By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The mother of a toddler whose disappearance sparked international media attention appeared on Wednesday...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The majority ruling by South Africa's top court, sentencing Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail, was...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental...

By Bart Biesemans and Johnny Cotton BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Concern over a weeks-long hunger strike by hundreds of undocumented migrants in...

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges on Wednesday convicted two men of war crimes for...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses to seven and eight years in jail on...

By Rami Ayyub and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges on Wednesday convicted two men of war crimes for their role in financing and...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police re-arrested pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung after revoking her bail on Wednesday, on the...

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Amnesty International said on Wednesday that Hong Kong authorities have used a new national security law to...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Wednesday that the time would come when he would name his possible...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Forced labour in Malaysia is not a widespread problem or "out of control", a senior police...

(Corrects to 'European rights court', not 'EU court' in headline) WARSAW (Reuters) -The Polish justice minister infringed on the rights...