A month has passed since the May 2 abduction of prominent Malian lawyer and government critic Mountaga Tall. His whereabouts ...

Russian authorities have banned nine groups that provide support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as ...

Kazakhstan authorities on May 25, 2026, forcibly transferred a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest, Yakov Vorontsov, to a ...

The Trump administration’s decision to establish a US$1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate participants of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, has ...

We are deeply concerned about the five young human rights defenders of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC) – Long Kunthea, Yim Leanghy, Thun Ratha, Phuon Keoraksmey, and Ly Chandaravuth (MNC5) – convicted in ...

Colombian private military contractors apparently hired by a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company transited through UAE ...

Federal regulators should act urgently to prevent millions of people with low incomes from losing Medicaid coverage under new ...

The Trump administration has deported thousands of Cubans, many of them older adults, to Mexico, denying them due process and ...

The Burkina Faso junta’s suspension of the country’s largest student union is the latest in a series of government crackdowns ...

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has been reviewing a discrimination petition filed last October by a man in a same-sex relationship who was denied marriage leave by his employer. The ...

(Nairobi) – The 2016 conviction in Senegal of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré was a pivotal moment in the pursuit of justice for atrocity crimes, Human Rights Watch and the International ...

On May 20, a court in California temporarily suspended a Trump administration policy that stripped key protections from immigrant survivors of domestic violence. The 2025 directive at issue had made ...