Just over one year ago, on 8 October, 2023, Malek al Kafarna, then 13, woke up at home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, unsure if he’d go to school as the Israeli military had begun its intense aerial ...

Human Rights Watch is honored to address the African Committee of Experts at its 45th Ordinary Session, and join it in celebrating 35 years since the adoption of the African Children’s Charter.

The Chinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free the Taiwanese publisher Li Yanhe (李延賀), known by his ...

Romania has a deeply disturbing history of interfering with women’s reproductive rights. Behind the Iron Curtain, abortion as ...

Michael Sang Correa, an alleged former member of a Gambian death squad, will stand trial in a US federal court in Denver, ...

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military ...

Mozambique’s parliament unanimously passed into law the Political Commitment for an Inclusive Dialogue which aims to create ...

Saudi authorities have released dozens of people serving long prison terms for peacefully exercising their rights yet ...

Romania’s history offers a disturbing, yet instructive, example. In 1966, the country’s communist government adopted “Decree ...

Retired Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara died last week in Rwanda. He had spent 11 years behind bars, without being allowed to speak ...

We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch ahead of your visit to Vietnam to urge you to raise strong concerns and the ...

The UN Human Rights Council’s decision to pursue an international treaty on the rights of older people is a landmark victory ...