The international community must follow through on its commitments to protect Afghan women’s rights defenders, writes Susan Hutchinson ...

It can use its presence to put Azerbaijan’s dictatorship on the spot and shift the focus to the regime’s abysmal record on human rights. Before COP29 begins ... that occurred on President Joe Biden’s ...

World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly's annual General Debate should call for action to end the ...

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

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

Last month, the Taliban passed a new "vice and virtue" law, making it illegal for women to speak in public. Under the law, ...

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 ...

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

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

And what has been upsetting to me, it’s one thing to have a strong defense yourself ... but clearly what we’re seeing in Gaza is not defense. It is a ...

Peck’s new film, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found about the acclaimed South African photographer who exposed apartheid to the ...