Karabakh's de facto administration who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Azerbaijan, says that he and 18 other Armenian ...

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison ...

Since ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti in late July 2026, US authorities have deported hundreds of Haitians ...

We, the undersigned international civil society organisations, are writing following your support for the Council of Europe’s PACE Resolution 2664 (2026) on The functioning of democratic institutions ...

World leaders at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City from September 22-28, 2026, should commit to defending human rights, Human Rights Watch said. They should ...

This week 25 former political prisoners arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania having been released from detention in Belarus.

Chinese lawyer Ruth Wang fled to Taiwan on September 2 after authorities threatened to shut down her law firm. Her offense?

The Turkish government’s major crackdown on groups and activists defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people threatens the rule of law and fundamental rights in ...

As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, and a situation the Special Rapporteur has described as “gender apartheid,” ...

Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is repealing limits on climate-warming pollution from ...

Venezuela needs to take urgent measures and carry out institutional reforms to protect people’s basic rights, Human Rights Watch said today, following its first official visit to the country since ...