Human Rights / Civil Rights

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive is considering legal action against Poland over "LGBT-free" zones set up by some...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - After a South Korean air force master sergeant accused a colleague of sex abuse...

PARIS (Reuters) - French European Affairs junior minister Clement Beaune said on Wednesday he expected a form of sanctions against...

By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities on Tuesday were searching for the relatives of a boy, thought to...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's authorities on Tuesday found the body of a woman who had...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -High numbers of Chinese students at Australian universities have created an environment of self-censorship with...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations in Brazil advanced...

By Nathan Allen and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) -The Spanish government on Tuesday approved the draft of a bill to...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian military instructors and Central African Republic (CAR) troops targeted civilians with excessive...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's parliament adopted legislation on Tuesday that will allow single women and lesbians access to in-vitro fertilisation,...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Activists in Venezuela say there is little to celebrate this LGBTI Pride month, which they say is...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military authorities have dropped charges against 24 celebrities who had been declared wanted under an anti-incitement law...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered the arrest in absentia of Ivan Zhdanov, an ally of jailed...

(Reuters) - The judge in the trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday rejected a motion...

By Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Workers at Malaysian palm oil company IOI Corp are mistreated by managers, face...

By Yik Lam and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - As documentary filmmaker Kiwi Chow walked through a pedestrian tunnel...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife attack in the German town of Wuerzburg that killed three people and seriously injured seven...

By Fanny Potkin and Panu Wongcha-um SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) -Google took down two Google Maps documents on Monday that had listed...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans said on Monday they opposed Democratic-led...