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April 14, 2025 News Release

The EU Should Press Bhutan to Free Political Prisoners

UN Experts’ Communication Raises Concerns of Fair Trial Violations, Inhuman Conditions

April 14, 2025 Dispatches

Plastics Reform, Regulation Urged by Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Group

Affected Communities Seek Better Information on Plastics’ Health Harms

The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles, California, March 9, 2020.

April 14, 2025 News Release

Lebanon: Journalists, Activist Summoned for Investigations

Lawsuits, Threats of Charges Against Reporters, Activists

April 14, 2025 Statement

Türkiye: Attacks on the Legal Profession Unacceptable

Moves Undermine the Independence of Lawyers and the Rule of Law

April 14, 2025 News Release

UN Landmines Resolution Highlights Human Rights Impact

Historic Rights Council Action Sends Message to States Reconsidering Mine Ban Treaty

April 14, 2025 News Release

EU-PA Dialogue Should Focus on Palestinians’ Rights

Escalating Repression Under Israel’s Occupation and the Palestinian Authority

European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa at a press conference following their meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, March 24, 2025.

April 14, 2025 News Release

EU Border Agency: Use Aerial Surveillance to Save Lives at Sea

Petition Shows Support for Action by Frontex

Iskra Kirova, Europe and Central Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, in front of the Frontex headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, April 2, 2025.

April 13, 2025 Feature

The Sudan Conflict, 2 Years On

Des millions de vies brisées ; des dizaines de milliers de civils décédés

April 13, 2025 News Release

Sudan: After 2 Years of War, Global Action Needed

Focus on Protecting Civilians, Aid Access, Accountability

damage surrounding Al-Shaab Teaching Hospital

April 13, 2025 Report

China: Police Arrest Tibetans for Internet, Phone Use

Mass Cellphone Searches, ‘Anti-Fraud’ App, Tightened Regulatory Regime

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021.

April 13, 2025 Report

Mozambique: No Arrests in Post-Election Political Killings

Conduct Effective Investigations, Fair Prosecutions

April 11, 2025 Dispatches

Civilians Around Sudan’s El Fasher Face New Attacks

Governments Should Ensure Civilian Protection, Safe Movement

Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025.

April 11, 2025 Commentary

Sweden, EU should take action to stop Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

Op-ed by Human Rights Watch, Diakonia and Act Church of Sweden

April 11, 2025 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

Environmental Impact Assessments, Strategic Environmental Impact Assessments and the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

April 11, 2025 News Release

US/El Salvador: Venezuelan Deportees Forcibly Disappeared

Disclose Fate of all Detainees; End Incommunicado Detention

Relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador attend a vigil in front of the El Salvadoran embassy in Caracas on April 2, 2025.

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#MeToo
'Remain in Mexico'
Azerbaijan Natural Resources and Human Rights
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
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China's Global Influence
Climate Talks 2017
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Coronavirus
Daily Brief
Disappearances in Yemen
Drugs and Human Rights
Duterte
Education for Syrian Refugee Children
Egypt Crackdown on Civil Society
Encryption
Ethiopian Protests
Europe: Refugees & Migrants’ Rights
Ferguson
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Gender-based Violence at Work
German Election
Global Supply Chains
Guinea's 2009 Stadium Massacre Trial
Hissène Habré
Hong Kong
Honor Killings
Iraq War 20 Years Later
ISIS
kafala system
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Land Rights
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Los Angeles Film Club
Mass Surveillance in China
Mediterranean Crisis
Mexico: Lessons from a Human Rights Catastrophe
Middle East Uprising
Nagorno-Karabakh
Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’
Rabaa Massacre
Refugee Summits
Reparations in the United States
Right to Social Security
Rights of Persons with Albinism
Rohingya
Russia-Ukraine War
The Trial of Hissène Habré
Tigray Conflict
Trump’s Return
Uganda Elections 2016
US: Trump Presidential Transition
Uyghurs
World Cup 2018
World Humanitarian Summit
World Report 2024 News Releases
World Report 2025 News Releases
Xenophobia
Yahya Jammeh

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