Lebanese journalists, media organizations, and civil society groups are facing the repeated use of criminal defamation ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international ...

Such things - trivialities in much of the world - can lead to arrest, detention, and torture in Tibet under Chinese rule.

The European Union should press Bhutanese authorities to release dozens of political prisoners held for decades in dire conditions.

The California state government in the United States should better regulate plastics, says the south Los Angeles-based reproductive justice organization Black Women for Wellness.

The escalating attacks by Turkish authorities on the Istanbul Bar Association, its leadership, and members of the legal profession are an affront to the independence of the legal profession and the ...

Mozambican authorities have failed to conduct credible investigations into the wave of political killings following the ...

Frontex, the European Union’s Border and Coast Guard agency, should ensure that its aerial surveillance capacity is used to save lives at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization met with ...

Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displaced camp ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming ...

New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what ...

Sudanese refugees get off a truck loaded with families arriving at a transit centre for refugees in Renk, South Sudan, on February 13, 2024. © 2024 LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images ...