Non-Governmental Organizations

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress passed a land bill on Tuesday that is backed by the country's...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights has temporarily halted the imminent deportation from Austria of an Afghan...

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan human rights activists on Tuesday urged Rabat not to extradite a Uyghur man to China, citing...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia ramped up executions in the first half of 2021 following a drop during its term...

By Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands more Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to...

By Darrin Zammit Lupi ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, Mediterranean (Reuters) - German NGO Sea-Watch said on Friday it had rescued nearly...

MILAN (Reuters) - Firemen in Italy said on Saturday they were battling for a second straight day wildfires in Sicily...

By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) - A prominent imprisoned Bahraini opposition figure has lost 10 kg during the first three...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels waged a spate of mortar attacks on Syrian army checkpoints in the...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish authorities have intercepted a boat carrying more than 200 Afghan migrants in the Aegean sea heading for...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest appeal court on Wednesday upheld a guilty verdict against the son of Equatorial Guinea's president...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - About 1,000 Hungarians protested on Monday over allegations that the government used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware for illegal...

(Corrects perpetrators of the school abductions in second paragraph to remove reference to Islamist militants) KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Kidnappers who...

(Reuters) - Iran on Saturday dismissed as meddling in its internal affairs criticism by the United Nations' human rights boss...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts urged UNESCO on Friday not to grant World Heritage Site...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan called on the United Nations on Friday to investigate whether India used Israeli-made...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Morocco's General Prosecutor said it will open an investigation into what it called "unfounded allegations" that the...

By Ann-Kathrin Weis and Andi Kranz AHRWEILER, Germany (Reuters) - Red Cross volunteers and emergency services in Germany deployed emergency...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An association of human rights lawyers linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's group has suspended work...

KYIV (Reuters) -Belarusian police searched offices and homes of independent journalists and human rights activists for the third successive day...