Judges Set to Deliver Advisory Opinion on Occupied Palestinian Territory ...

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

Human Rights Watch has conducted research on SRSV and children’s access to justice and reparations in numerous countries where SRSV is widespread or endemic, and/or vastly underreported. In this ...

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.

Human rights groups, including HRW ... In the latest step in their “relentless assault against dissenting voices,” Azerbaijani authorities have arrested researcher and political analyst ...

Human Rights Watch research exposes how people experiencing poverty are often more vulnerable to having their rights violated and abuses can further entrench barriers to people meeting their basic ...

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.

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

It united women, with the support of men, from diverse communities including Kurds, Baluchis, and other marginalized communities alongside educators, students, and activists in a collective fight for ...

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 ...

“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 ...