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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

Yesterday, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels announced the capture of the city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their arrival into the second largest city in eastern Congo follows the fall of ...

The European Parliament, in a strong resolution last week, slammed the inaction of European Union executives on the eastern ...

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