At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.

Russia apparently used cluster munitions contained in at least one ballistic missile in an attack on Kyiv early on August 5, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.

The United Nations Security Council should ensure that an international force remains in southern Lebanon to protect civilians and deter human rights abuses by the Israeli military and Hezbollah, ...

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for nearly a month, Human Rights Watch ...

Pakistani authorities should ensure a prompt, independent, and transparent criminal investigation into the deaths on August 5, 2026, of a woman and a 17-year-old girl in police custody in Lahore, ...

Four human rights groups (the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute) filed a lawsuit in US federal court ...

The Israeli military’s April 22, 2026, attacks in Lebanon that killed one journalist and severely injured another included ...

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the ...

As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with To Lam, Vietnam’s president and general secretary of the Communist ...

On August 11, 2026, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute (OSI) filed a lawsuit challenging ...

The recent addition of 43 Chinese companies, including aluminum producers, to a US government forced labor list underscores ...

The office will have broad powers to investigate suspected misappropriation or unauthorized handling of public assets and, ...