(Washington, DC, December 23, 2024) – US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the ...

Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal ...

Rıfat Roni has spent more than a decade as an official court interpreter facilitating communication for Kurdish speakers in ...

It has been 15 years since the European Court for Human Rights found in the Sejdic-Finci case blatant racial and ethnic ...

Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal ...

The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass ...

In a year when much of the news felt incredibly grim, Human Rights Watch wants to take time to share the progress that we’ve ...

(Nairobi) – Cameroon ’s authorities should immediately reverse the suspension of a prominent human rights group, Human Rights ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties ...

I am honored to appear before this commission to testify, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, regarding the human rights ...

Despite joyous images of Syrian refugees going home, no government should be sending or planning to send people back ...

Foreign tech companies have given in to intensifying pressure from Russian authorities to comply with draconian national laws ...