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

This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial ...

It has been almost 15 years since the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) found in the Sejdic-Finci case blatant racial and ethnic discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitution.

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 legal proceedings. This week, he found himself in the dock facing charges.

Mexico’s congress has approved an amendment to the country’s federal labor law to uphold the labor rights of workers for digital labor platforms. The amendment reclassifies workers to ...

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

Israeli authorities have deliberately denied Palestinians the bare minimum of water they need to survive, Human Rights Watch found. This calculated policy of deprivation has most likely led to the ...