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 ...

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 ...

The NGO urges governments to improve protection schemes, grant legal status and reverse "onerous visa requirements" for ...

Carbon credit certifying agency Verra announced on Sept. 10 that it has lifted the suspension of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ ...

The group urged governments in Latin America to implement a “region-wide protection regime that would grant all Venezuelans ...

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

A map released by the U.S. Department of Homeland ... Guillermo Arias / AFP/Getty Images The American Immigration Council, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have all questioned user privacy, as well as ...

This documentary is crucial for supporters of LGBTQ+ rights since it presents a sincere, close-up view of how human ...

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 The legislation was finally repealed ...