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 this week should call for action to ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is tasked with prosecuting individuals for the most serious offenses, such as genocide ...

The Human Rights Watch group urged Latin American governments to expand protections for thousands of Haitians and Ve ...

Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “This action undermines the public's right to information and further weakens the foundations of democratic governance in the country.” ...

For many decades, First Nations people were not provided with full access to human rights protection – due in part to section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. The legislation was finally repealed ...

The executive ... director of the European Union’s border protection agency, Frontex, has strongly denied allegations suggesting that it continues to be involved in illegal pushbacks and human ...

Human Rights Watch, in a report detailing repressive measures the government ... “The repression we are seeing in Venezuela is shockingly brutal,” Juanita Goebertus, the organization’s director for ...

Human rights groups, including HRW ... Such an omission – as my expert colleague Yasmine Ahmed, HRW’s UK Director, says – “shows either a miscomprehension of the law or a willful disregard.

Over the past year, students and clinic director Anjli Parrin—who joined the ... to health in the context of armed conflict. Indigenous rights to health In partnership with Human Rights Watch and ...

Learn more. RSU 21 hired Dawn Therrien as the district’s new human resources director in an emergency School Board meeting Friday afternoon. She will earn a salary of $137,917. The previous HR ...