Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete steps to protect schools and communities ...

Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, ...

In Belem, Brazil, as United Nations climate summit (COP30) convened, I marched alongside thousands of activists and ...

The 2024 version of the State Department report issued by the Trump administration in August already removed or significantly reduced sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, ...

A new quantitative study from National Observatory on Violence Against Educators represents one of the most comprehensive ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...

Las crecientes presiones políticas sobre las autoridades electorales en Honduras amenazan el derecho a participar en elecciones libres y justas.

Escalating political pressure on electoral authorities threatens Hondurans’ right to vote in free and fair elections.

Reports that alleged systemic failures at Brazil’s top football club led to the deaths of 10 child athletes in a fire in 2019 ...

Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial on November 24, 2025, amid a broader crackdown on civil ...

In February 2026, it will be 80 years since the United Nations selected its first secretary-general, a man. Since then, eight ...

Philippe Bolopion, a 13-year veteran of Human Rights Watch and a former journalist who has extensively advocated on ...