Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

United States President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark ...

Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei ...

The essential step toward a world in which people fleeing war, persecution, and poverty no longer need to risk their lives on ...

On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued historic decisions finding that Ecuador and Nicaragua violated ...

Almost immediately after being sworn in as US president on Monday, Donald Trump rapidly issued one executive order after ...

Human Rights Watch's submission in advance of the 77th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights regarding Kenya’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social ...

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that ...

Human Rights Watch, Jewish Council of Australia, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Australian National Imams Council ...

Egyptian authorities have renewed their judicial harassment of Hossam Bahgat, a leading human rights defender and the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), one of ...

The United States Health and Human Services Department (HHS) published a landmark report on intersex health equity last week, ...