The essential step toward a world in which people fleeing war, persecution, and poverty no longer need to risk their lives on ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei ...

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that ...

United States President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark ...

On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued historic decisions finding that Ecuador and Nicaragua violated ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Almost immediately after being sworn in as US president on Monday, Donald Trump rapidly issued one executive order after ...

Human Rights Watch, Jewish Council of Australia, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Australian National Imams Council ...

Human Rights Watch's submission in advance of the 77th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights regarding Kenya’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social ...

Egyptian authorities have renewed their judicial harassment of Hossam Bahgat, a leading human rights defender and the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), one of ...