Human Rights Watch reiterates its regrets that the European Union continues to hold its human rights dialogue with China, given that no guarantees or improvements have been secured over its past ...

May 30, 2025 Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide the following comments on the “ [Draft] Policy on Cyber-enabled Crimes under the Rome Statute (March 2025)” (hereafter ...

Chairperson, Commissioners, and distinguished delegates, Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to address the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ...

Human Rights Watch then manually included additional categories for each concluding observation based on a subjective and relative review of each Concluding Observation as a whole.

Mr. President, Afghans, especially women and girls, face one of the most severe humanitarian and human rights crises in the world. We thank the Special Rapporteur for his latest report, which ...

قُتل رجلان في شمال غرب مصر على ما يبدو على يد عناصر من وزارة الداخلية المصرية في 10 أبريل/نيسان 2025 بعد ساعات ...

In the days following the vote, Human Rights Watch spoke with local activists, journalists, private citizens, and a member of the ruling party’s youth league – the Imbonerakure – who spoke ...

Human Rights Watch respectfully writes to present our concerns regarding one specific provision in the Swedish government's proposed legislation (prop. 2024/25:124) - namely, the proposed ...

The 61-page report, “A Hazard to Human Rights: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Digital Decision-Making,” finds that autonomous weapons, which select and apply force to targets based on sensor ...

During preparations for the EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue in May 2023, the authorities released prominent environmentalist Nguy Thi Khanh five months earlier than her prison sentence.

The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human Rights Watch ...