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.

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,” ...

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

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

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

On September 11, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General published reports outlining findings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Canada’s New Society Institute released a report arguing that Canada’s government needs to change its approach to developing policies that support women with disabilities across the country. The ...

Georgian authorities are using vague administrative offenses to jail or heavily fine people for online speech, deepening the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said ...

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