Human Rights / Civil Rights

By Juliette Jabkhiro and Manuel Ausloos PARIS (Reuters) - Ever since Lisa Troadec converted to Islam and began wearing a...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Germany and the Baltic states said they strongly condemned the arrest and sentencing...

By Michael Kahn PRAGUE (Reuters) -The number of people fleeing Ukraine to escape Russia's invasion has passed 5 million in...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark is in talks with Rwanda about setting up a new procedure for transferring asylum seekers to the...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Moscow has deported 500,000 people from Ukraine to Russia, a leading member of the parliament in Kyiv...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong opposition activist was jailed for 40 months on Wednesday after the city's first...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on...

By Laura Gottesdiener MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - More than two dozen women and girls have disappeared so far this year...

(Reuters) - Russia gave Ukrainian fighters still holding out in Mariupol a fresh ultimatum to surrender as it pushed for...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government said on Tuesday it has no plans to stop requiring masks...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities jailed a journalist on Tuesday pending trial after he announced hackers had stolen personal information...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecution says it has found no evidence of criminal violence in the death of an...

BANGUI (Reuters) - The inaugural trial of a court established to prosecute war crimes in Central African Republic's drawn-out conflict...

BARCELONA (Reuters) -Catalonia's regional leader will ask police to investigate alleged spying by the Spanish government, he said on Tuesday,...

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday voted to ban public displays of the letter "Z", the black and orange...

By Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia will retaliate against Poland if its embassy in Warsaw stops working because it...

(Reuters) - Moscow is expelling 15 Dutch diplomats after the Netherlands last month told 18 Russian diplomats to leave, Russia's...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Major Japanese beef bowl firm Yoshinoya Holdings Co said on Tuesday it has sacked a managing director who...

By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) - Mila Panchenko found herself on a station platform in southwest Russia after lack of...

(Reuters) - Ukraine said Russia started an anticipated new offensive in the east while a Russian missile attack killed seven...