Three laws approved in September 2026 by the Bangladeshi parliament have reversed human rights protections and broken the ...

Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial ...

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 ...

In the past year, Russian authorities have continued their harsh, retaliatory authoritarian practices. The government branded ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...