On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s ...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant ...

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We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers ...

The Israeli government’s plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of ...

Only 10 percent of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, remains under the control of the Haitian government. And even this last stronghold is now on the verge of collapse, putting the entire population at ...

A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted killing on June 23, 2025, ...

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) ...

The Ethiopian authorities should immediately rescind the suspension of a prominent health professionals organization and ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and ...

Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and ...

Kenyan authorities should be held accountable for all abuses during countrywide protests on June 25, 2025, including killings ...