From Russia to Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia to Hungary, “foreign agent” style laws have become a preferred instrument for ...

The Taliban have recently issued a new law banning women from singing in public or letting their voices be heard outside ... is an Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.

and urged Member States to identify survivor-centered and gender-responsive pathways to justice while strengthening existing mechanisms to address the gravity of the situation. Echoing this call for ...

“Uzbek authorities brought a baseless case against two activists to silence independent voices,” said Mihra Rittmann, senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Then they raised ...

human rights defenders (HRDs), jour­nalists, and other cri­ti­cal and inde­pendent voices.[4] Legislative elections are planned for May 2025, eight months after the Human Rights Council’s ...

China is among those countries that retaliates against people for engaging with the United Nations and tries hard to silence ...

“The forced closure of Kloop Media not only silences a crucial voice ... rights and freedoms of its citizens,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

The Taliban thugocracy doesn’t just deny half the population fundamental human rights; it rejects the very ... measures like the ban on women’s voices, but look around: no other Muslim ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced the repressive limitations as they “attack women’s personhood and autonomy, contributing to their further erasure from society,” further denouncing the law for ...

A United Nations panel issued guiding principles today making clear that the pursuit of minerals needed to transition from ...

Alice Autin is an officer with Human Rights Watch’s International Justice Program.