Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

Donald Trump’s second term as United States president poses a grave threat to human rights in the United States and the world ...

4) Realize people who work in human rights are just like everyone else – not always easy to get along with. We all share a ...

At the 79th Ordinary session of the Commission in May, Human Rights Watch raised with this Commission, the grave violations perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias ...

Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese government should immediately free forcibly disappeared Catholic bishops, ...

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the NGO Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday, denouncing the impunity enjoyed by those responsible. Rwanda, which has been ruled for three decades by President Paul Kagame, is regularly accused by ...

Human Rights Watch is calling out the government of Burkina Faso for failing to include human rights violations taking place in the country in a report to the African Commission on Human and ...

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The Armenian government’s bill for the mandatory installation of video surveillance systems with 24-hour police access ...

A judge has struck down a state law that made it easier for New Yorkers to sue over electoral divisions and voting rules that weakened the political voice of minority groups, saying its special ...

European Union leaders attending COP29, the 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, from ...