(Kyiv, August 13, 2026) – 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 attack ...

(New York, August 12, 2026) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for ...

(London) – 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 ...

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 ...

Türkiye has requested permission from the United States to “re-transfer” to Ukraine tens of thousands of cluster munition rockets, missiles, and artillery projectiles that have been in Türkiye’s ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The Russian government-controlled Africa Corps carried out airstrikes in central Mali on June 15, 2026, that killed eight ...

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

The United States government has filed its first application ever with the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC). The court’s chief judge today canceled a scheduled hearing to decide whether Nazira ...