A United Nations process is moving forward to consider a new legally binding treaty to strengthen children’s right to free ...

The discovery of several women’s bodies on the outskirts of South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, has caused fear, anxiety and outrage across the country.

When Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly in New York this week, they should urge him to release the at least 28 political prisoners who ...

World leaders at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City from September 22-28, 2026, should commit to defending human rights, Human Rights Watch said. They should ...

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison ...

Karabakh's de facto administration who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Azerbaijan, says that he and 18 other Armenian ...

We, the undersigned international civil society organisations, are writing following your support for the Council of Europe’s PACE Resolution 2664 (2026) on The functioning of democratic institutions ...

This week 25 former political prisoners arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania having been released from detention in Belarus.

On September 11, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General published reports outlining findings ...

As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, and a situation the Special Rapporteur has described as “gender apartheid,” ...

Chinese lawyer Ruth Wang fled to Taiwan on September 2 after authorities threatened to shut down her law firm. Her offense?

The Australian government has caused thousands of people seeking asylum to suffer grave abuses under its offshore detention ...