2 days ago · Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice

World Report 2025, Human Rights Watch’s 35th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 550 plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, …

Jan 17, 2025 · We’re Back, and yesterday we launched our World Report 2025.; Podcast: The new episode of Rights & Wrongs takes us inside the World Report and looks back at a year of …

Racial justice remained a pressing human rights concern in the United States in 2024. The US ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination …

1 day ago · The Egyptian government should accept, and take urgent action to carry out recommendations made during a United Nations review of its human rights record on January …

2 days ago · Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law.

Racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, and threats to democracy remained pressing human rights problems in the United States in 2023. The national poverty rate rose dramatically following …

The litany of human rights crises that unfolded in 2022 – from Ukraine to China to Afghanistan – has left behind a sea of human suffering, but it has also opened new opportunities for human ...

Jan 8, 2025 · But deepening authoritarian repression also fueled civic mobilization around the world. In Bangladesh, students protesting corruption, democratic erosion, and restrictive job …