Human Rights Watch joined 170 other human rights and environmental organizations and trade unions calling on the European ...

A video released last week shows Ukrainian authorities interrogating two North Korean soldiers captured in the Kursk region ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024.

The Australian government increasingly violated the rights of children in the criminal justice system in 2024.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, which took office in February 2024, is perpetuating a longstanding ...

Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in ...

Civilians in East Africa and the Horn bore the brunt of armed conflicts between government forces and opposition armed groups ...

As you would expect, it makes for some grim reading. In much of the world, government repression has expanded and deepened, ...

The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing ...

Israeli authorities and Hamas agreed to a multi-phase ceasefire on January 15, 2025, that includes the entry into Gaza of ...

The events of 2024 have shown that even in the darkest times there are those who dare to resist oppression and demonstrate the courage to seek progress, said Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human ...