Tunisian authorities failed to ensure an adequate supply of electricity and water during two months of extreme summer heat, undermining the right to health and endangering lives.

Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the worsening human rights situation across Georgia. In the past two years ...

The Sri Lankan government’s latest attempt to replace its abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) retains numerous ...

Today, Christa Pike remains unconscious on a ventilator, and in critical condition after the Tennessee government’s failed ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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