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(Bangkok, July 2, 2025) – Five Cambodian environmental activists who have completed one year of their six to eight-year prison terms on baseless charges...

Recent attacks on girls and young women in South Sudan illustrate how they are at risk and lack adequate protections. On June 25, armed men...

On the last day of its term, the United States Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, finding that parents are...

(Guatemala City) – Widespread lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services puts the health and other rights of millions of Guatemalans,...

Bangladesh’s interim government has taken some positive steps to address the terrible legacy of enforced disappearances, but some of the hardest and most important...

Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for almost eight years. He is...

SAN ANTONIO — Two convicted human smugglers were sentenced June 27 for their prominent roles in the 2022 mass casualty human smuggling conspiracy that...

(New York, July 1, 2025) – The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines unnecessarily puts...

In a dramatic turn in Russia’s widening crackdown on military corruption, former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant afternoon—into a beacon of resistance. Budapest...

(Brussels) – European Union member states led by France and Germany are walking back on their commitment to protect human rights and the environment in global...

(Johannesburg) – On June 26, 2025, about a dozen weapon-wielding men in Malawi attacked demonstrators peacefully protesting the government’s handling of upcoming national elections, Human...

Cindy Rodriguez Singh is a capital murder suspect sought in connection with the death of her young son, Noel Alvarez. Story from www.fbi.gov

(Washington, DC) – The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the country’s wealthiest families while...