Human Rights / Civil Rights

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish warplanes, helicopters and drones hit Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq in an air and land operation...

(Reuters) - Ukraine's presidential chief of staff said on Monday that "the second phase of the war has started," referring...

By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -A planned hijab ban if French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is elected would come...

(Reuters) - No fewer than 1,000 civilians are hiding in underground shelters beneath the vast Azovstal steel plant in the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Humanitarian ceasefires between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Ukraine are not on the horizon right now, but may...

MADRID (Reuters) -Catalonia's regional leader accused the Spanish government on Monday of spying on its citizens after a rights group...

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ramadan bombings in Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south will not derail peace talks with separatist...

(Reuters) - Relatives of hundreds of prisoners gathered outside Myanmar's Insein Prison on Sunday after the military government announced the...

PARIS (Reuters) - French security forces briefly fired tear gas in Paris on Saturday as opponents of the far-right marched...

By Joseph Campbell and Zohra Bensemra TROSTYANETS, Ukraine (Reuters) - The handmade sign on the gate warns "The cemetery is...

(Reuters) -Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday it had barred entry to the country for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson,...

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rebels sidelined from peace talks claimed responsibility on Saturday for deadly bombings in...

(Reuters) - Rescuers and medics were working on the site of an early Saturday blast on the outskirts of Kyiv,...

(Reuters) - Explosions were heard in the early hours on Saturday in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and the western city of...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Thousands of Serbs waving Russian and Serbian flags and carrying pictures of President Vladimir Putin marched through...

By Henriette Chacar, Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM (Reuters) - One year after events in Jerusalem led to war...

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Friday freed a journalist who had been detained after she criticised police and...

By Pavel Polityuk and Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - (This April 14 story corrects paragraph 21 to make clear...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -A Taiwanese activist jailed in China returned to Taiwan on Friday after completing a five-year sentence. Li Ming-che,...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - Sun Jian, a 37-year-old master's degree student in the Chinese city of Yantai, for...