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

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

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

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

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

Human Rights Watch wrote to the Burkina Faso justice minister on June 26 and the country’s ambassador to the United States on July 30, sharing research findings and requesting responses to ...

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

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.

At the heart of these discussions will be the elimination of discrimination, promoting equality, human dignity, democracy, and social justice ... Co-conveners of the Voice for Reform initiative ...

Various universities and municipal governments in North America, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Toronto District School Board, City of Burnaby, and City of Brampton, have also ...