The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention against Cybercrime on December 24, despite widespread concerns ...
Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during ...
The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found ...
Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, ...
(Beirut) – The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities ...
US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.
Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal ...
What did you learn from Human Rights Watch’s videos this year? Whether you clicked on a feature about devastation in Ukraine or watched our reels on the United States election, we hope you learned ...
An overhaul in ASEAN’s approach to Myanmar is clearly needed, but tilting toward the junta is the exact wrong direction. On December 19-20, Thailand will host regional representatives in their ...
A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...
With the fall of Assad in Syria, a new wave of human rights investigations into his regime’s crimes can finally take place on the ground. What my colleagues have been finding in recent days is ...