Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, ...

A new executive order seeking to designate “illicit fentanyl” a “weapon of mass destruction” could open the door to a ...

We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the violent attacks on December 18, 2025 on the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, two of South Asia’s oldest and most reputed media institutions, and the ...

Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of expression.

Discussions are advancing at the United Nations on a new global treaty to guarantee every child’s right to a free education.

China’s government has long sought to silence dissent abroad, but recently there’s been a disturbing escalation: harassment ...

Since late 2016, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in northwestern China have been victims of crimes against humanity ...

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that proposes to challenge and dismantle a range of “cumbersome” ...

Throughout the year, HRW covered many human rights topics and crises around the world. From major developments in ...

In the latest crackdown on media freedom in Ethiopia, Deutsche Welle (DW) said that the Ethiopian Media Authority had ...

Egyptian authorities should quash the conviction of prominent economist Abd al-Khaliq Farouk, who on October 2, 2025, was ...

On December 13, Belarusian authorities released 123 prisoners following negotiations led by the US administration. Most of ...