The EU’s new forced labor law is an important stride in the global fight against forced labor. By addressing forced labor ...

Dozens of arrests on the first anniversary of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death are just the tip of the ...

Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa ...

The Trump administration has enacted new immigration policies at a dizzying pace, some of which obliterate programs built over decades to enable avenues to safety for people fleeing war and ...

Successive governments in Guatemala have failed to meet their obligations toward girls facing early and forced pregnancies ...

Ugandan authorities should release from prison former opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, whose health has ...

The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow access to encrypted cloud data harms the privacy rights of users in ...

Two men died in custody in Uzbekistan in recent days, and a third man is in the hospital unresponsive after police detained him, according to rights groups and local bloggers.

Human Rights Watch announced today that the Board of Directors has named Federico Borello as interim executive director, effective immediately. Borello, the current deputy executive director and chief ...

We, the undersigned human rights groups, are writing to request your urgent and robust intervention with the Bahraini ...

Iranian authorities have issued heavy prison sentences for at least two dozen activists from the Azeri minority since October ...

Conflict and displacement have left much of Syria’s infrastructure in ruins. Entire towns are uninhabitable. Schools, hospitals, roads, water facilities, and electrical grids are damaged or destroyed.