Red-tagging targets leftist activists, land rights defenders, labor leaders, and youth activists and has a chilling effect on freedom of expression and association.
Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice
World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled on the basis of their common humanity. They include civil and political rights, as well as economic, social, and ...
In May, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) heard a case by Legal Action Worldwide and partners accusing the Ethiopian government of human rights violations in Tigray.
During its 2020 Universal Periodic Review cycle, the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations from Iceland, Belgium, France, and Malta regarding LGBTQ+ rights.
Human Rights Education Resources for educators and students about how to defend dignity and equality at home and abroad The Basics: What are human rights? ... How do human rights evolve?
The UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, the UN high commissioner for human rights, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expressed concern regarding ...
A joint report by Human Rights Watch and the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights found that Uganda’s lack of government-funded pre-primary education worsens wealth inequality and has ...
Human Rights Watch has documented such violations in schools, medical clinics, and the labor market in the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Tabasco.
NPR: In Vermont, small town meetings grapple with debate on big issues
James Klug on MSN: You're mad about my rights - what happened when the activist quit mid-debate
You're mad about my rights - what happened when the activist quit mid-debate
WUWM: In Vermont, small town meetings grapple with debate on big issues
The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...
Rights-respecting democracies should form a strategic alliance to preserve the rules-based international order, which is under threat from the Trump administration and the leaders of China and Russia.
Since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022, serious human rights violations have continued in the country largely unabated, including arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings ...
Large-scale anti-government protests rocked Kazakhstan in January 2022, setting off a cascade of human rights violations by the authorities, including excessive use of force against protesters ...
Human Rights Watch received information confirming severe ill-treatment and appalling detention conditions at Gikondo transit center, as well as torture in official prisons in Rwanda, throughout ...
Shabnam Salehi, Human Rights Commissioner, Afghanistan The judges still consider the victim as a criminal, and they ask a lot of the questions that is against the human dignities.
Repression of Civil Society Organizations The authorities have continued to restrict civic space and the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
Amid a bleak political landscape of rising authoritarianism and anti-rights political agendas, the Council of Europe and its member states adopted a new declaration last week in Chișinău ...