Donald Trump’s second term as United States president poses a grave threat to human rights in the United States and the world ...

European Union leaders attending COP29, the 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, from ...

Human Rights Watch said today. These concerns reflect Trump’s rights-abusing record during his first term, his embrace of white supremacist supporters and ideology, the extreme antidemocratic ...

Human Rights Watch wrote to the relevant Armenian authorities in August seeking clarifications and assurances over the proposals but has not received any replies. While the proposed amendments do ...

The European Court has accepted Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, and the Turkey Litigation Support Project as intervenors in the case. On September 16, the groups ...

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With a profound sense of loss and deep sorrow, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) mourn the passing of a tireless member of their teams, human rights advocate Joe ...

We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Saudi authorities to immediately cease misusing administrative and judicial ...

the NGO Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday, denouncing the impunity enjoyed by those responsible. Rwanda, which has been ruled for three decades by President Paul Kagame, is regularly accused by ...

Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese government should immediately free forcibly disappeared Catholic bishops, including James Su Zhimin, Augustine Cui Tai, Julius Jia Zhiguo, Joseph Zhang ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

Human Rights Watch found that judges ignored complaints from current and former detainees about the unlawful detention and ill-treatment, creating an environment of near-total impunity.