This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving ...

The Ethiopian authorities should immediately rescind the suspension of a prominent health professionals organization and ...

United States and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the already existing education crisis for ...

Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global ...

Turkmenistan’s authorities have brought new charges against an imprisoned activist who had been scheduled for release earlier ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists, ...

The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end ...

On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in ...

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti, violence and human rights abuses continue to rise.

As your new government takes office, we write to you about the human rights situation in South Korea and urge that you take ...