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.

A United Nations process is moving forward to consider a new legally binding treaty to strengthen children’s right to free education. The proposed Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of ...

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 ...

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison on bogus charges, in the military government’s latest attack on media ...

Karabakh's de facto administration who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Azerbaijan, says that he and 18 other Armenian prisoners are being denied regular family contact, adequate exercise, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Criminal gangs have carried out a spate of violent attacks targeting civil society and opposition gatherings ahead of the ...

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

Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the ...

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