Donald Trump’s tumultuous relationship with US journalists and legacy media reached a new crisis over the past week.

Three laws approved in September 2026 by the Bangladeshi parliament have reversed human rights protections and broken the ...

Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial ...

The discovery of several women’s bodies on the outskirts of South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, has caused fear, anxiety and outrage across the country.

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

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 ...

A United Nations process is moving forward to consider a new legally binding treaty to strengthen children’s right to free ...

In the past year, Russian authorities have continued their harsh, retaliatory authoritarian practices. The government branded ...

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

When Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly in New York this week, they should urge him to release the at least 28 political prisoners who ...

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

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 ...