The Vietnamese authorities arrested a former political prisoner, Huynh Ngoc Tuan, on October 7, 2025, for his comments on ...

Saudi Arabia is a party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which strictly prohibits the use of capital ...

When governments convene this week in Paris for a conference on feminist foreign policy, there will be a lot to talk about.

Lately governments of all stripes have been on a charm offensive with Hanoi, hoping Vietnam’s policy of “bamboo diplomacy” — ...

Three women died in Qarchak prison, a Tehran women’s prison notorious for abysmal conditions, between September 16 and ...

This month, the European Commission released its LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030, a renewed and ambitious step in the ...

In the narrow window prior to the 2026 elections, we urge you to expand human rights protections and ensure Bangladesh has the strong institutions needed to guarantee free and fair elections and guard ...

Human Rights Watch research has found, for example, that South Sudan’s air force killed at least 58 people with improvised ...

Humanitarian disarmament has made a critical difference over the past three decades in saving countless lives around the ...

We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch in the context of the upcoming summits of the Association of Southeast Asian ...

As organizations committed to civil society and open civic space, we, the undersigned, are gravely concerned by the U.S.

On October 9, Human Rights Watch with Tokyo-based Human Rights Now and Peace Boat held an event at the Japanese Diet to press ...