Detainees told Human Rights Watch they were routinely beaten by guards and riot police, including during cell inspections for ...

The 2024 version of the State Department report issued by the Trump administration in August already removed or significantly reduced sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, ...

I am an associate director and researcher for Human Rights Watch’s US Program. I submit this declaration to inform the court about the likely impacts of the US government’s efforts to deport Mahmoud ...

The African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights should act decisively to address the dire, protracted human rights ...

Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank,” details “Operation Iron Wall,” an Israeli military operation ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...

South Korea’s government punishes workers for getting older. That’s the stark conclusion of a new Human Rights Watch report examining how South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies ...

The new Thai government should reverse the trend of past administrations and take concrete action to uphold human rights.

[1] Additional information on the human rights situation in Rwanda can be found at: https://www.hrw.org/africa/rwanda. [3] Human Rights Watch, World Report 2025 (New ...

We are writing to urge your government to promptly address the following human rights issues and take concrete steps to ...

When Uganda enacted its draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2023, there were dire warnings. Legal experts and human rights defenders inside the country and outside predicted it would be a “disaster ...

Human Rights Watch reiterates its regrets that the European Union continues to hold its human rights dialogue with China, given that no guarantees or improvements have been secured over its past 39 ...