Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, ...

The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found ...

US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.

Rıfat Roni has spent more than a decade as an official court interpreter facilitating communication for Kurdish speakers in legal proceedings. This week, he found himself in the dock facing charges.

This week, Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal Procedure Code. The Lawyers’ Syndicate, the ...

(Washington, DC, December 23, 2024) – US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row. These individuals will have ...

It has been almost 15 years since the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) found in the Sejdic-Finci case blatant racial and ethnic discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitution.

This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial ...

I am honored to appear before this commission to testify, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, regarding the human rights situation in El Salvador during the ongoing state of emergency. For years, El ...

'Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percent of the ...