Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in close to 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice ...

The UN Human Rights Council held an emergency session today on the imminent risk of atrocities in and around Sudan’s El Obeid, a city in North Kordofan. The session follows an appeal by rights groups ...

Turkey is preparing to host the July NATO summit with the Western alliance firmly focused on keeping its most eastern member on side. The increased geopolitical capital that Turkey has enjoyed since ...

The Israel-Lebanon framework agreement signed in Washington on June 26, 2026, threatens to betray war crimes victims in Lebanon.

We are hearing alarming reports from contacts in El Obeid, eerily reminiscent of the weeks before the RSF takeover of El Fasher. They describe an unrelenting campaign of bombardment, including with ...

Human Rights Watch, SITU Research, and Truth Hounds conducted a damage assessment of the city of Mariupol using satellite imagery taken between October 2021 and May 2022. We assessed damage to houses ...

Khin Khin Soe, the spokesperson for Myanmar’s military-controlled parliament, urged the Japanese government on June 30 to ...

While people in many Latin American countries are prone to take their grievances to the streets, Bolivia stands out for the ...

Niger on June 18 and Burkina Faso and Mali on June 24 notified the United Nations secretary-general of their respective ...

After months of silence from Burkina Faso’s military junta, the United Nations Human Rights Office announced on June 30 that ...

Hungary’s parliament voted overwhelmingly on June 30 to abolish the Sovereignty Protection Office, an institution created by the previous Fidesz government to target independent journalists, civil ...