It can use its presence to put Azerbaijan’s dictatorship on the spot and shift the focus to the regime’s abysmal record on human rights. Before COP29 begins ... that occurred on President Joe Biden’s ...

Rights advocates in India are looking to a Supreme Court hearing October 1 in hopes of a permanent ban on so-called bulldozer ...

World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate this week should call for action to ...

As the climate crisis intensifies, a new initiative aims to bring environmental activists, defenders and community voices to ...

Jorge Eduardo Malena, director of the Asian Affairs Committee at the Argentine Council for International Relations, said ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched ... John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Seattle Central Community College.

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

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

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has fired Human Rights Minister Silvio ... I was Silvio’s victim. I am a voice for these women. For justice and for the truth,” she said.

We, the undersigned Afghanistan and international human rights and civil society organisations, write to you once again to ...

“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.

For many decades, First Nations people were not provided with full access to human rights protection – due in part to section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. The legislation was finally repealed ...