Nearly 5,700 men and boys held as alleged Islamic State (ISIS) members and transferred to Iraq in early 2026 are at risk of abuse including imminent prosecution for adults in unfair trials, followed ...

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Three laws approved in September 2026 by the Bangladeshi parliament have reversed human rights protections and broken the ...