Human Rights / Civil Rights

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban lawmakers on Sunday approved a new penal code for the country that is being critiqued by...

By Praveen Menon CANBERRA (Reuters) -Activists at one of the world's longest-running protests for the rights of indigenous people are...

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss voters on Sunday backed proposals to make global TV streaming services such as Netflix...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Spreading protests across Iran over a cut in state subsidies on food have turned political with slogans...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) -Thousands of Tunisians protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied, demanding a return to the...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah met his counterpart from Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow...

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 700,000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been recorded in Germany thus far, Welt...

By Laura Gottesdiener MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed on Friday to deliver justice for...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Malaysia views U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed Indo-Pacific economic bloc as a welcome initiative...

(Reuters) - Ukrainian military authorities loaded the bodies of Russian soldiers collected after fighting in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - An Israeli missile attack on the Masyaf area in Syria's Hama countryside late Friday killed five and...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Soaring bread prices have triggered protests in Iran in which some shops were set on fire, prompting police...

By Pavel Polityuk and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian court held a preliminary hearing on Friday in the first...

(Corrects throughout to show three sentenced to life in prison, not two) DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar has sentenced four men...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Women who have fled to Poland to escape war must have access to reproductive rights that meet...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The mother of a renowned Egyptian activist who recently gained British citizenship says she fears she may...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Friday Russia had forcibly deported more than 210,000 children since its invasion on Feb....

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican's number two said on Friday that supplying weapons to Ukraine to help...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday that a decision by the U.N. Human Rights...

By Timour Azhari BEIRUT (Reuters) - Shot by security forces during protests over the 2020 Beirut port blast and frozen...