High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

The U.S. no longer sees the quests for equality, global justice or human rights as foreign policy imperatives, or as ...

Albanese should reinforce messages about abuses in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet and urge the Chinese government to end its ...

Prosecutions for atrocities are not always enough to stop hatred. Societies must also acknowledge what happened.

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) June 10 decision to sanction Addameer, a ...

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

Following a high-level meeting day ahead of the Finance for Development Conference (FfD4) that will start on 30 June, 11 organizations are calling for states to step up their efforts to increase ...

Syrian rights and civil society groups, as well as Human Rights Watch, have reported that SNA factions are still detaining, extorting and torturing Kurdish civilians in northern Syria with impunity.

Instead, Sands represented Human Rights Watch when the Pinochet case was considered by the Law Lords. Pinochet had been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide.

Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday.

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by rights groups who say it reflects an increasing trend of ...