One year after Tanzania’s contested 2025 elections, authorities have yet to make any arrests for human rights violations ...

Globally, women in public life face alarming levels of political violence, including tech-facilitated sexual and gender-based ...

A new investigation and accompanying feature detail how police officers tampered with body cameras during a deadly raid in ...

Operação Contenção, or Operation Containment, was the deadliest documented one-day police operation ever in a country where ...

The Sri Lankan government’s Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, submitted to parliament on October 20, 2026, risks enabling arbitrary detention, torture, and other rights violations.

School officials across Azerbaijan have been turning away girls wearing hijabs following the introduction of new government ...

Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, a long-serving United Arab Emirates diplomat and foreign affairs official, has an extensive record of ...

(Beirut) – Qatar Preventive Security Department forces have arbitrarily arrested lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment in detention, Human Rights ...

Human Rights Watch has documented key findings in its investigative feature, A Strategy of Death. Here, we illustrate how the ...

(Beirut) – A Saudi court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison on charges related to his peaceful social media activity, Human Rights Watch said today. The conviction is the latest example of ...

It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and ...

Egyptian authorities should drop their case against Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent media outlet Mada Masr, ...