On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers ...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant ...

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Only 10 percent of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, remains under the control of the Haitian government. And even this last stronghold is now on the verge of collapse, putting the entire population at ...

A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted killing on June 23, 2025, ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and ...

The Ethiopian authorities should immediately rescind the suspension of a prominent health professionals organization and ...

One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) ...

Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and ...

Kenyan authorities should be held accountable for all abuses during countrywide protests on June 25, 2025, including killings ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...