Chinese authorities should immediately release the man who unfurled banners critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the ...

The decision has caused uproar among media professionals and opposition party leaders who appropriately criticized it as step ...

The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo acknowledges the central role of ...

The single-party, authoritarian government of Laos systematically restricts fundamental civil and political rights, including freedom of speech, association, and peaceful assembly.

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with its international obligations since its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2020. Despite the ...

European Union and member states’ leaders should urge their Gulf Cooperation Council counterparts to release unjustly jailed ...

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns regarding the human rights situation in Kuwait. Although at its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Kuwait accepted 230 recommendations,[1] ...

This week, member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) from all regions overwhelmingly voted to renew the ...

Despite 17 months of brutal conflict in Sudan, the country rarely made it to the top of the European Union’s agenda. But next ...

On October 9, the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus an EU-led resolution renewing the mandate of the UN special ...

A deadly military airstrike in Kaduna state, Nigeria, on September 27 claimed the lives of 24 people and injured dozens more, ...

In a case that is disappointing but not surprising, the agreement between the government of Azerbaijan and the United Nations ...