Rights group says sexual violence constitutes war crimes, and that it underscores the urgent need for international action to ...

Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring ...

We’ve reported on some of the horrific crimes being perpetrated by the warring parties before. In the conflict between the ...

HRW’s Mohamed Osman and Laetitia Bader, have just returned from the town of Renk in South Sudan, near the border with Sudan.

In its latest report on civil war-torn Sudan, monitor NGO Human Rights Watch documented dozens of cases of sexual violence ...

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state since September 2023, Human ...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group fighting Sudan's army, is accused of committing mass sexual atrocities ...

Throughout the year, HRW covered many human rights topics and crises around the world. From investigations into crimes ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report on Tuesday detailing allegations of widespread human rights abuses committed by the ...

Women and girls in Sudan are faceing horrific cases of sexual assault and sex slavery as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and ...

Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to ...

There are 25 others, and they all outline the fundamentals of our human rights. Drafted in 1948 in the aftermath of ...