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

Since the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in Sudan in April 2023, ...

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

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

Human Rights Watch echoes this call and urges UN member states to ensure the Human Rights Council, at its upcoming September session, adopts a resolution renewing those mandates.

In his report on Sri Lanka, the high commissioner describes entrenched impunity for gross human rights violations; regressive ...

Human Rights Watch said. This domestic mechanism should operate with UN support and oversight to ensure its independence and adherence to international human rights standards. “Following Sheikh ...

A United Nations panel issued guiding principles today making clear that the pursuit of minerals needed to transition from ...

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

Three years since the Taliban took control, Afghanistan has descended into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises ...

Independent UN human rights experts say Venezuela’s government has intensified the “harshest and most violent mechanisms of ...