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Rights groups say the Israeli plans for a so-called ‘humanitarian city’ and emigration amount to ethnic cleansing and forcible displacement, report Bel Trew, Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian who look ...

Albanese should reinforce messages about abuses in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet and urge the Chinese government to end its ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes Angola’s engagement with the UPR process and its acceptance of a significant number of ...

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) June 10 decision to sanction Addameer, a ...

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ ...

The United Nations voted to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) on Monday. The UN ...

Author Bio Shahd Hammouri is an academic at the University of Kent and an international lawyer. Omar Shakir is the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch.

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee During its Periodic Review of Vietnam under the ICCPR at its 144th Session.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and protection against torture in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Trump administration can still project a meaningful vision of human rights that is reconcilable with its focus on the security of American citizens.