Nearly 5,700 men and boys held as alleged Islamic State (ISIS) members and transferred to Iraq in early 2026 are at risk of abuse including imminent prosecution for adults in unfair trials, followed ...

Globally, authoritarianism and attacks on civil society threaten hard-won progress towards racial equality and justice. As ...

An unusual trial will begin next week in London’s High Court, brought by the families of two 23-year-old Tanzanian men who ...

Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on ...

Teresa M., a 30-year-old Guatemalan woman, had just left home for her job manufacturing cabinets when she was stopped by ...

Human Rights Watch thanks the Special Rapporteur for his report, which describes the deteriorating situation for civil ...

The National Human Rights Commission in Mauritius earlier this year urged the government to legally recognize same-sex marriages, stating that the refusal to recognize such unions is discriminatory ...

Nebraska’s efforts to implement new, federally mandated work requirements for Medicaid underscore fears that millions of ...

The ongoing prosecution of two prominent human rights defenders in Greece is a politically-motivated attempt to silence their efforts to expose abuses against migrants, Human Rights Watch said today.

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 21 detained Mark Mabasa, the 40-year old son of slain Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who was shot to ...

In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic’s self-proclaimed interim president. He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called ...

Laying flowers, speaking out, reporting the news – once ordinary acts in Hong Kong— can now lead to prison under the city’s ...