This month the Indian government banned 25 books on the Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, saying they “excite ...

Without urgent and coordinated responses from domestic institutions and regional actors, Malawi risks descending into a cycle ...

Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against largely West and ...

(Washington, DC) – US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in ...

On August 4, Brazil’s Supreme Court justice issued a house arrest order for former president Jair Bolsonaro and prohibited ...

Earlier this week, Burkina Faso’s junta expelled the top United Nations representative in the country, Carol ...

On August 17, police in Kazakhstan detained veteran human rights defender Bakhytzhan Toregozhina and held her for several ...

Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s Evin prison complex in Tehran on June 23, 2025, were unlawfully indiscriminate and an apparent ...

As serious human rights violations and abuses continue to be committed in Burundi in a context of widespread impunity, and as ...

Juanita Goebertus Estrada, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, located at 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10118, ...

Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian ...

This month, the Ukrainian journalist Victoriia Roshchyna was finally laid to rest in a cemetery in Kyiv. She had disappeared ...