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HRW Letter to Australian Attorney-General Michelle Rowland regarding the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility ...
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This week, the United Nations General Assembly met for its first-ever public high-level session devoted to North Korea's ...
World Health Organization (WHO) member countries adopted a new treaty on May 20, 2025, to improve international coordination ...
On 13 May, 2025, a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, submitted a new bill entitled the Transparency of Public Life, which would enable the government to target, defund and dissolve any ...
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a far-reaching “Foreign Agents” law that grants the government of President ...
The revised law poses grave risks to the rights of political opposition ahead of the country’s general elections, scheduled ...
Migrants from Afghanistan hold signs that read "Stop pushbacks” during a rally against alleged pushbacks of migrants and refugees by Greek security forces at the border with Turkey, February 6 ...
On the night of March 5, an explosive weapon slammed into the Tsentralnyi Hotel in the southeastern city of Kryvyi Rih. It ...
The authors, economic justice and rights researchers at Human Rights Watch, argue that proposed Medicaid cuts will only ...
Russian attacks in Ukraine since January 2025 have killed and injured more civilians than in the same period in 2024. Get ...
The United States should offer to bring back and hear the asylum claims of approximately 200 third-party nationals, including ...