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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Pakistani authorities on September 17, 2026, rearrested human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha soon after the Supreme Court granted them bail.

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

Criminal gangs have carried out a spate of violent attacks targeting civil society and opposition gatherings ahead of the ...

A court in Azerbaijan on September 7 sentenced the prominent human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 ...

Satirist and political commentator Azamat Omarov, who had been in pre-trial detention in Kazakhstan since mid-April on ...

Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...