Chinese authorities have detained half a dozen members of an underground Protestant church based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Human Rights Watch said today. This was the latest in a string of arrests ...

Iran Human Rights, an independent group, reported on January 6 that at least 27 protesters had been killed and hundreds more ...

India’s Supreme Court on January 5 denied bail to prominent student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who have been ...

On the night of January 2, the US military conducted strikes on Venezuela, and took into custody the country’s president, ...

“The Supreme Court’s decision is a huge victory for same-sex couples in the US that will reverberate in many countries that still deny people the right to marry the person they love,” said Boris ...

This report was written by Bronwen Manby, senior researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, and the sections on discrimination against women and sexual violence by Rumbi Mabuwa, ...

In Vietnam, more than 160 political prisoners are currently locked up simply for exercising their basic rights. Rights bloggers and activists face police harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and ...

La noche del 2 de enero, Estados Unidos llevó a cabo ataques contra Venezuela y capturó al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a su ...

Thailand and Cambodia should fully abide by international humanitarian law in any fighting along their border.

Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, ...

To mark the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, Human Rights Watch has cataloged 100 of the administration’s executive policies, orders, and actions that pose significant risks to the ...

On November 6, Islamist fighters, allegedly from the Al Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen, or known as JNIM), abducted Cissé while she ...