The United Nations Security Council should ensure that an international force remains in southern Lebanon to protect civilians and deter human rights abuses by the Israeli military and Hezbollah, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect without adequate remedies.

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