Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, ...

A new executive order seeking to designate “illicit fentanyl” a “weapon of mass destruction” could open the door to a ...

Throughout the year, HRW covered many human rights topics and crises around the world. From major developments in ...

Discussions are advancing at the United Nations on a new global treaty to guarantee every child’s right to a free education.

Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of expression.

Since late 2016, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in northwestern China have been victims of crimes against humanity ...

On December 13, Belarusian authorities released 123 prisoners following negotiations led by the US administration. Most of ...

China’s government has long sought to silence dissent abroad, but recently there’s been a disturbing escalation: harassment ...

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that proposes to challenge and dismantle a range of “cumbersome” ...

Egyptian authorities should quash the conviction of prominent economist Abd al-Khaliq Farouk, who on October 2, 2025, was ...

In the latest crackdown on media freedom in Ethiopia, Deutsche Welle (DW) said that the Ethiopian Media Authority had ...

Gyula Balog had a twinkle in his eye to match his wide smile, as he declared, “I’m an alcoholic, a homeless person, an ...