Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a prominent activist, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in January 2025 on bogus charges of hooliganism, illegal entrepreneurship, and smuggling charges. PACE rapporteurs had ...

Building from a first term riddled with policies that violated human rights, the incoming Trump administration has proposed a ...

A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over a decade in Thai immigration detention face risks of enforced ...

The Guna Indigenous community of Ukupa in Panama has announced a plan for the relocation of their entire village out of ...

The rise of a new leader in Vietnam following a power shake-up in mid-2024 brought no reprieve from the government’s ...

Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the ...

The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024.

If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming U.S. president will not advance the cause of human ...

Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in ...

Human Rights Watch joined 170 other human rights and environmental organizations and trade unions calling on the European ...