The US Department of Defense submitted its 2025 civilian casualty report to Congress on August 10, touting “a strong record ...

Thai authorities should halt the imminent deportation of 26 ethnic Karen villagers from Phetchaburi province to Myanmar and release them from immigration detention.

A 22-year-old man detained for drug use died in police custody in late June 2026, a day after Iraqi police removed him from a hospital in the southern city of Najaf while he was being treated for ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The city of Izumisano in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture announced on July 27 that it would create a new nyujiin—an infant care ...

The Philippine government’s revised national guidelines on free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) threaten the rights of ...

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, ...

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