A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar to five years in prison on August ...

The United Nations Human Rights Office’s report on Sri Lanka details entrenched and systemic rights violations—including ...

The national security trial in Hong Kong against Jimmy Lai, owner of the shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, was ...

This month, the Ukrainian journalist Victoriia Roshchyna was finally laid to rest in a cemetery in Kyiv. She had disappeared ...

The Trump administration’s omission of key sections and manipulation of certain countries’ rights abuses degrade and ...

Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process.

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s 60th session (8 September-8 October 2025), we, the undersigned civil society ...

The trial of a Kyrgyz human rights defender who published a letter from a political activist on her Facebook page is ...

Human Rights Watch Submission to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ahead of the 20th Australia-Vietnam ...

We, the undersigned nine organizations, are alarmed by the statement of Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, President of the Republic of the ...

Australia should press the Vietnamese government on human rights by seeking clear, concrete, and measurable benchmarks for ...

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