Human Rights Watch

Human rights campaigners urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday to take steps to ensure a three-year loan for...

Saudi authorities detained 136 people – both citizens and expatriates in Saudi Arabia – for their alleged involvement in...

A combination of corporate greed and government failures in relation to the expanding palm oil plantations in Western...

Police in Nicaragua raided the home of President Daniel Ortega’s main challenger and placed her under house arrest on...

After days of nationwide protests against her arrest, authorities in Bangladesh granted on Sunday conditional bail to a...

Human rights and free media advocates called on Uzbekistan to release anti-corruption blogger Otabek Sattoriy, calling his...

As Turkmen citizens stand in long lines for scarce, government-subsidized food, members of the ruling family are living...

At least 27 people, including a police officer, died in a shootout in northern Rio de Janeiro after security forces entered...

A global treaty tackling cybercrime threatens to put freedom of expression and other human rights at stake in many countries...

Moscow’s lawsuits against five social media giants for not removing calls to join government-banned rallies from their...

Human Rights Watch urged on Wednesday the United Nations to do something about the deteriorating human rights situation in...

A Belarus court sentenced on Wednesday journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva and camerawoman Daria Chultsova of the Poland-based...