2 days ago · Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice

World Report 2025, Human Rights Watch’s 35th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Racial justice remained a pressing human rights concern in the United States in 2024. The US ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination nearly ...

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 550 plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists ...

6 days ago · (Washington, DC) – The US government’s suspension of most foreign aid is putting lives around the world at risk, Human Rights Watch said today. On his first day in office, President Donald ...

Jan 17, 2025 · We’re Back, and yesterday we launched our World Report 2025.; Podcast: The new episode of Rights & Wrongs takes us inside the World Report and looks back at a year of reckoning around the world.

2 days ago · The Egyptian government should accept, and take urgent action to carry out recommendations made during a United Nations review of its human rights record on January 28, 2025.

Jan 8, 2025 · But deepening authoritarian repression also fueled civic mobilization around the world. In Bangladesh, students protesting corruption, democratic erosion, and restrictive job quotas grew into a ...

Racism, anti-immigrant sentiments, and threats to democracy remained pressing human rights problems in the United States in 2023. The national poverty rate rose dramatically following the choice ...

3 days ago · (Jakarta) – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo should act to promote and protect the rights of everyone in Indonesia, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the ...