The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit ...

On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s ...

On the last day of its term, the United States Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, finding that parents are entitled to opt their children out of school curricula that ...

The European Commission’s forthcoming 2026–2030 LGBTIQ Equality Strategy represents a crucial opportunity to reaffirm and expand the EU’s role as a global leader in human rights. While much of the ...

Human Rights Watch is pleased to contribute to the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity regarding the human right to education and the protection against violence ...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers ...

A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted killing on June 23, 2025, ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) ...

The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines unnecessarily puts civilians at risk.

The Ethiopian authorities should immediately rescind the suspension of a prominent health professionals organization and ...