From 2024 and through April 2025, courts in Vietnam convicted and sentenced at least 16 people to long prison terms under article 117, including prominent human rights activists Nguyen Chi Tuyen ...

The most recent global education figures make for grim reading. Nearly 200 million children and youth are missing out on ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “Human Rights in the Trump Era.” The full symposium can be found here.

(Ottawa) – G7 leaders should commit to taking concrete actions to halt Israeli atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory at their upcoming summit, Human Rights Watch said today in a ...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s first female president, came to power as a renowned defender of human rights. She is clinging to it, critics say, by locking up and torturing those who stand in ...

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support.” February 2025 February 6, 2025 Dispatches ...

On Wednesday, a High Court in Zimbabwe struck down provisions of the country’s Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, commonly referred to as the “Patriotic Act,” as unconstitutional.

It’s a yearly meeting of meaninglessness, a way to demote the topic of China’s extreme human rights abuses and separate them from talks on trade and other issues where the EU might have leverage.

On Jan. 1, just over a month before Monahan died, Schreibman was appointed by the Spokane City Council for a second term on the Spokane Human Rights commission, where he serves as the vice chair.

Human Rights Watch met with more than 40 children and parents, as well as civil society organizations, independent institutions, teachers and education staff, and government and local officials ...

Some of the most acute and pervasive human rights abuses take place in times of crisis and conflict. The Crisis, Conflict and Arms division documents and exposes violations of human rights and the ...

Fear is growing in immigrant communities following recent ICE raids, and many are unsure about their rights or what to do if they're detained.