Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal ...

Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal ...

It has been 15 years since the European Court for Human Rights found in the Sejdic-Finci case blatant racial and ethnic ...

Rıfat Roni has spent more than a decade as an official court interpreter facilitating communication for Kurdish speakers in ...

I am honored to appear before this commission to testify, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, regarding the human rights ...

Prosper Niyonzima, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, spent nearly five years in immigration detention in Canada, including ...

In a year when much of the news felt incredibly grim, Human Rights Watch wants to take time to share the progress that we’ve ...

No one can predict which team will win the Men’s World Cup soccer championship in 2034. But based on current conditions, we ...

Ahead of Poland’s forthcoming Presidency of the Council of the EU, we write to call on your government to use this six-month ...

For a truly “Myanmar-owned and -led” solution, regional governments should be centering efforts toward dialogue and ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties ...

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