New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what ...

South Sudan’s use of improvised air-dropped incendiary weapons has killed and horrifically burned dozens of people, including ...

The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje ...

Iranian authorities are preparing to carry out finger amputation sentences, as early as April 11, 2025, against three men ...

The extradition and detention of Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi violate international human rights protections, including the ...

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.

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 ...

Michael Sang Correa, an alleged former member of a Gambian death squad, will stand trial in a US federal court in Denver, ...

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 ...