Thai authorities should immediately release and drop the groundless charges against Paul Chambers, a leading Thai studies ...

Just over one year ago, on 8 October, 2023, Malek al Kafarna, then 13, woke up at home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, unsure ...

Human Rights Watch is honored to address the African Committee of Experts at its 45th Ordinary Session, and join it in celebrating 35 years since the adoption of the African Children’s Charter.

The Chinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free the Taiwanese publisher Li Yanhe (李延賀), known by his ...

Romania has a deeply disturbing history of interfering with women’s reproductive rights. Behind the Iron Curtain, abortion as ...

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military ...

Mozambique’s parliament unanimously passed into law the Political Commitment for an Inclusive Dialogue which aims to create ...

Saudi authorities have released dozens of people serving long prison terms for peacefully exercising their rights yet ...

We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch ahead of your visit to Vietnam to urge you to raise strong concerns and the ...

Romania’s history offers a disturbing, yet instructive, example. In 1966, the country’s communist government adopted “Decree ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a ...

On Tuesday, the Trump administration froze federal funding for several organizations across the United States that provide ...