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 National Human Rights Commission in Mauritius earlier this year urged the government to legally recognize same-sex marriages, stating that the refusal to recognize such unions is discriminatory ...

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 ...

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

In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic’s self-proclaimed interim president. He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called ...

International accountability can exploit those divisions, preserving evidence for future justice while improving conditions for some Afghans today In October 2001, a U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, ...

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

Uzbek officials should immediately ensure the safety and well-being of an imprisoned Karakalpak blogger and lawyer, Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, and secure his release, Human Rights Watch said today.

A South Sudanese political commentator remains in prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without charge a year after his arrest.

(The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s conviction of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani for crimes against humanity in ...