Human Rights

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Tunisia suspends Nobel Peace Prize-winning LTDH rights group

TUNIS, April 24 (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities on Friday ordered a one-month suspension of activit...

25th April, 2026

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Pope Leo decries migrants being treated 'worse than house pets'

By Joshua McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT, April 23 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Thursday decried the wor...

23rd April, 2026

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Two Russian LGBT groups say courts declared them 'extremist'

April 23 (Reuters) - Two Russian LGBT organisations said on Thursday they had been designated by sep...

23rd April, 2026

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Iran dissidents bemoan European silence after latest execution

DUBAI/PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition leader criticised European countries on Wedn...

22nd April, 2026

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Pope decries inequality on whirlwind last day of Africa tour

By Joshua McElwee MONGOMO, Equatorial Guinea, April 22 (Reuters) - Pope Leo used the last full day o...

22nd April, 2026

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Indonesia rights bodies find widespread abuses in 2025 protests

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, April 21 (Reuters) - An investigation by Indonesian state-run rights bodi...

21st April, 2026

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Iranians fear sharpening pressure after war and crackdown 

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, April 18 - Iranians striving to maintain a semblance of n...

18th April, 2026

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Settlers block Palestinian pupils' path to West Bank school with barbed wire

By Nuha Sharaf and Yosri Al-Jamal JERUSALEM, April 16 (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinian children hav...

16th April, 2026

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Israeli attacks prevent Lebanese from burying their dead in ancestral lands

By Nazih Osseiran and Jihed Abidellaoui BEIRUT April 15 - Brothers Ali and Wael Sabbagh stood facing...

15th April, 2026

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Around 250 missing after Rohingya boat capsizes in Andaman Sea, UN agencies say

April 14 (Reuters) - Around 250 people were missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and Bang...

14th April, 2026

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Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral

By Thomas Suen and Louisa Gouliamaki TYRE, Lebanon April 12 (Reuters) - Wrapped in bloodied bandages...

12th April, 2026

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Russian listed by Memorial as political prisoner goes on hunger strike

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) - A former Moscow district official serving a long pris...

11th April, 2026