Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council ...

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

The rights of people in the United States are at risk. The Trump administration's harmful policies are being resisted by ...

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns about Angola’s compliance with its international human rights obligations since its previous Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) in 2014 and 2019.

Their disappearance —the men have never been found and no one has been held accountable—is one of more than 6,400 attacks on human rights defenders that took place from January 2015 to ...

Press freedom has been stifled in Greece since Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative government came to power in 2019, with phone malware and aggressive lawsuits used against ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The United States (US) based Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on the newly elected Trinidad and Tobago government to take immediate steps to repatriate more ...

Human Rights Watch reported on Friday that the fourth UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Laos showed little progress over the past five years, and condemned the country’s attacks on dissidents and ...

This comes just weeks after Human Rights Watch warned that the violence in Haiti is escalating and putting civilians at “grave risk.” In February, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human ...

Venezuela’s dictatorship is under more intense global scrutiny this week for both its human rights violations and multi-billion dollar corruption. The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has ...

April 30 (UPI) -- The Venezuelan government under President Nicolas Maduro has engaged in a "brutal crackdown" that includes killings and forced detention of critics, a Human Rights Watch report ...