World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate this week should call for action to ...

There’s also at least one specific point regarding the violation of the laws of war here. As my expert colleague, Lama Fakih, ...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, write to reiterate our joint appeal with 90 Afghan, regional and ...

We thank the Office for their report, which highlights the systematic denial of human rights, justice and reparation to generations of Afghans, and widespread human rights violations and abuses, and ...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law making, among other provisions, one year of pre-primary education ...

We, the undersigned Afghanistan and international human rights and civil society organisations, write to you once again to ...

The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch published a 213-page report which, it said, was not aimed at comparing Israel with apartheid-era South Africa but rather at assessing "whether specific acts and ...

Judges Set to Deliver Advisory Opinion on Occupied Palestinian Territory ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched human rights in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New ...

Human Rights Watch’s Statement to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute Committee on Budget and Finance ...

Most Olympians from around the world knew that when the games were over, they would return home to warm support, celebrations ...