Since ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti in late July 2026, US authorities have deported hundreds of Haitians ...

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 ...

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

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

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?

The Australian government has caused thousands of people seeking asylum to suffer grave abuses under its offshore detention ...

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 ...

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