A Trump executive order is undermining the International Criminal Court’s work to pursue justice for crimes against humanity.

Benjamin Ferencz was the youngest prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials winning convictions against those responsible for 1 ...

The UNMISS field office in Rumbek, Lakes state, has officially handed over a $49,500 human rights commission office to the ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide the following comments on the “[Draft] Policy on Cyber-enabled Crimes under the Rome Statute (March 2025)” (hereafter “draft policy”) of the ...

Upending decades of precedence, the Trump Administration will exclude key information from reports on human rights.

British Columbia's human rights commissioner says her office has been "re-energized" to push the provincial government to act ...

We spoke with UN Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif at the UN Pavilion at the 2025 Expo Osaka Kansai on global human ...

In March 2024, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called Israel’s conduct a “textbook case of genocide.” The Rome ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to gut the State Department’s human rights bureau as part of a sweeping reorganization of the country’s diplomatic service, according to internal department ...

The State Department plans to create a “Democracy and Western Values” office. Here’s why many won’t take it seriously.

Authorities in Tanzania have deregistered a church owned by a ruling party MP after he accused the government of human rights ...