Rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) paints one of its bleakest pictures in years of the global human rights situation in ...

Africa is sliding into deeper repression and conflict as global democratic guardrails weaken, according to Human Rights Watch’s latest report, warning that Donald Trump’s assault on international ...

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement,[1] systemic racial ...

In August 2025, the U.S Department of State released its annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which omitted previously reported human rights violations, including "political freedoms, ...

We are writing on behalf of a coalition of rights groups and trade unions to express deep concern around the lack of transparency and rights protections in the forthcoming Free Trade Agreement between ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations human rights' chief warned on Monday that "disturbing trends", including the glorification of violence and the retreat of some states from the multilateral system, ...

Five United Nations special rapporteurs expressed concern over potential human rights violations in an Oct. 14 letter to acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, obtained by ...

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has raised alarm over a series of pressing human rights violations across the country, including from Stilfontein mining tragedies, Zanzou torture ...

A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday accused British soldiers of decades of sexual misconduct, violence, human rights violations, and environmental harm during their tenure in the country. These ...

Some 4,000 Filipinos marched in the capital Manila, denouncing "gross human rights violations and international humanitarian law abuses” by the government in the Catholic-majority nation. The marchers ...

In its annual report, Human Rights Watch warned that civil rights are under threat globally since the reelection of US President Trump. It called on democratic countries to respond but also ...