The United States and coalition countries have yet to provide genuine justice or redress for war crimes and other grave abuses in Afghanistan in the 25 years since the war began on October 7, 2001.

An unusual trial will begin next week in London’s High Court, brought by the families of two 23-year-old Tanzanian men who ...

Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on ...

Teresa M., a 30-year-old Guatemalan woman, had just left home for her job manufacturing cabinets when she was stopped by ...

Human Rights Watch thanks the Special Rapporteur for his report, which describes the deteriorating situation for civil ...

Globally, authoritarianism and attacks on civil society threaten hard-won progress towards racial equality and justice. As ...

US immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Ortega-Murillo government has stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims.

Nebraska’s efforts to implement new, federally mandated work requirements for Medicaid underscore fears that millions of ...

The ongoing prosecution of two prominent human rights defenders in Greece is a politically-motivated attempt to silence their efforts to expose abuses against migrants, Human Rights Watch said today.

Laying flowers, speaking out, reporting the news – once ordinary acts in Hong Kong— can now lead to prison under the city’s ...

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong, in his September 28 address to the United Nations General Assembly, asserted that the country’s status as a permanent nuclear state is ...

The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US ...