United States President Donald Trump’s September 25, 2025, memorandum directing law enforcement to investigate a sprawling, ...

Since taking office in December 2023, Argentina’s President Javier Milei and his government have dismantled key sexual and ...

Human Rights Watch urges member states to press the government of Laos to fully and impartially investigate reports of ...

The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the prominent human rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong and drop all ...

Police fired on and killed four people in Leh, the capital of India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh, on September 24, 2025, ...

In the 1950s, a so-called “refrigerator mother” theory falsely blamed autism on emotionally cold mothers, fueling decades of ...

Climate experts have found that countries are planning twice as much fossil fuel production as is compatible with global ...

The decision of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) will jeopardize access ...

However, Belarusian authorities have not scaled back on repression and politically motivated detentions. According to Human ...

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its ...

Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups ...

The following remarks were delivered by Ida Sawyer, director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division, ...