Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, ...

The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found ...

US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.

Rıfat Roni has spent more than a decade as an official court interpreter facilitating communication for Kurdish speakers in legal proceedings. This week, he found himself in the dock facing charges.

This week, Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal Procedure Code. The Lawyers’ Syndicate, the ...

It has been almost 15 years since the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) found in the Sejdic-Finci case blatant racial and ethnic discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitution.

In a year when much of the news felt incredibly grim, Human Rights Watch wants to take time to share the progress that we’ve seen – and that’s easy to overlook – around human rights.

This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial ...

Prosper Niyonzima, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, spent nearly five years in immigration detention in Canada, including two years in solitary confinement. After a mental health crisis that ...

No one can predict which team will win the Men’s World Cup soccer championship in 2034. But based on current conditions, we know the biggest losers will be the millions of migrant workers ...

'Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percent of the ...

I am honored to appear before this commission to testify, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, regarding the human rights situation in El Salvador during the ongoing state of emergency. For years, El ...