US President Joe Biden announced on December 23, 2024 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.

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 ...

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

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

(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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Liberia’s Prince Y. Johnson, who rose to prominence first as a warlord and then politician, was implicated in serious abuses ...