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 ...

The Ukrainian armed forces have deployed a new kind of drone to defend their country, one filled with a pyrotechnic thermite mixture that rains fire down on enemy positions. Its use is highly ...

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

Human rights advocates are calling for an independent investigation into the deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies ...

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 ...

They are the stuff of 80s sci-fi blockbuster, The Terminator, but now lethal autonomous weapon systems are being used in ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees continue to be denied safe asylum and face violations of their rights, with Human Rights Watch ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

Islamist insurgents in Burkina Faso have stepped up attacks on civilians, carrying out door-to-door killings, slitting ...