Human Rights / Civil Rights

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday banned conversion therapy for minors, a practice aimed at suppressing a person's sexual orientation...

KABUL (Reuters) - Many women in the Afghan capital are delaying a return to fully covering their faces in public...

By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian gang members raped women and girls and burned people alive...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The wives of two of the last remaining Ukrainian fighters holed up in Mariupol's...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged authorities in Sri Lanka, which has been shaken by unrest over...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's government and its central bank have committed human rights violations by impoverishing people through the "callous...

By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - A quiet retirement for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is unlikely...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the government from using a colonial-era sedition law, that critics...

By Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) - Ferdinand Marcos Jr. went to the grave of his father, the disgraced Philippines...

By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters decide on Sunday whether to make global video streaming services support Swiss...

By Carolina Pulice MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Karla Rios held up a banner with pictures of her sister and niece...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss an order by Afghanistan's Taliban...

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -An international donor conference raised $6.7 billion for Syria and its neighbours on Tuesday despite...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top court called on Tuesday for the conclusion of a long-running trial of a Palestinian aid...

By Tom Balmforth and Alexander Ratz KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine welcomed what it called an "historical turning point" as German...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China would prefer to take over neighboring Taiwan without military action but is working to get to...

(Corrects to add dropped letter in spokesperson's name) GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday discussed the war in Ukraine and...

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan's Taliban government to...

By Karen Lema and Tom Allard MANILA (Reuters) - Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was 28 years old when a helicopter...