The Australian government’s human rights sanctions process should be strengthened through better civil society engagement and ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the inquiry into Australia's sanctions regime.

Profiteering companies are lining up to buy water rights in the western US as the water supply dwindles. We have only 4 days to raise $31,000 for Truthout. Independent journalism is a pillar of ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said on Friday that the situation in ...

The series of explosions that rocked Lebanon this week, killing dozens and wounding thousands, has prompted debate among ...

As the climate crisis intensifies, a new initiative aims to bring environmental activists, defenders and community voices to ...

Harris' campaign is hoping that reproductive rights will be a strong motivator for Democrats in the November election.

A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund found that 268 out of the 348 women held in the ...

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 ...