In Belem, Brazil, as United Nations climate summit (COP30) convened, I marched alongside thousands of activists and ...

Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, ...

A new quantitative study from National Observatory on Violence Against Educators represents one of the most comprehensive ...

The 2024 version of the State Department report issued by the Trump administration in August already removed or significantly reduced sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, ...

Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete steps to protect schools and communities ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...

Philippe Bolopion, a 13-year veteran of Human Rights Watch and a former journalist who has extensively advocated on ...

In February 2026, it will be 80 years since the United Nations selected its first secretary-general, a man. Since then, eight ...

Three years ago, a series of protests in China has sparked a political awakening among Chinese youth, with many questioning Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian policies and practices and notably ...

Shabana Mahmood’s newly unveiled asylum and returns policy is being sold as a moment of ‘restoring order’. In truth, it marks ...

The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 ...

The African Union (AU) and European Union should put respect for human rights and international humanitarian law at the ...