Five Cambodian environmental activists who have completed one year of their six to eight-year prison terms on baseless ...

The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit ...

On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s ...

On the last day of its term, the United States Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, finding that parents are entitled to opt their children out of school curricula that ...

The European Commission’s forthcoming 2026–2030 LGBTIQ Equality Strategy represents a crucial opportunity to reaffirm and expand the EU’s role as a global leader in human rights. While much of the ...

Human Rights Watch is pleased to contribute to the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity regarding the human right to education and the protection against violence ...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant ...

Prince, remains under the control of the Haitian government. And even this last stronghold is now on the verge of collapse, ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers ...

A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted killing on June 23, 2025, ...

Turkmenistan’s authorities have brought new charges against an imprisoned activist who had been scheduled for release earlier ...

Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and ...