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Thai authorities should urgently, thoroughly, and impartially investigate the assassination attempt on Kamonsak Leewamoh, a Muslim member of parliament and prominent human rights lawyer.

Georgian authorities forcibly returned an exiled Azerbaijani journalist, Afgan Sadigov, to Azerbaijan, exposing him to a credible risk of politically motivated prosecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

Belarus’s parliament adopted a new law on April 2 banning “propaganda” of same-sex relationships, of “gender reassignment,” and even of “childlessness.”

More than 100 Israeli strikes across Lebanon on April 8, 2026, including in densely populated neighborhoods in Beirut, killed over 300 people and damaged the last main bridge linking southern Lebanon with the rest of the country. Israeli strikes making bridge crossings over the Litani River unusable threaten to sever tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon from access to humanitarian aid, food, and health care.

Since its establishment in 1991, one of the most reliable messengers about life for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation had been a group called Defense for Children International-Palestine.

1. This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding the Tajik government’s compliance with its international obligations since its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2021. Since then, in November 2021 and May 2022 Tajik authorities carried out violent crackdowns on peaceful protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). They have also systematic sought to crush civil society through mass NGO closures and imposition of legal restrictions, and in transnational repression of government critics and dissidents living abroad, particularly in Europe including Turkey and Russia. Tajik forces committed apparent war crimes during a border dispute with Kyrgyzstan in September 2022.

For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun purchasing warehouses across the country to detain people in its custody.

I met Karla, a 52-year-old trans woman from Villahermosa, in 2023. She graduated with honors in nursing but has never been able to find stable work. In 2020, she passed all the exams for a nursing job at a public Tabasco hospital. When she went in to sign her contract, the head nurse, referencing her documents, told her that there was a “problem”: “You look like a woman, but have a man’s name. There is a discrepancy.” The hospital hired someone else. Karla’s story is not an isolated one. Across Mexico, trans people face daily obstacles because their identity documents do not reflect who they are. These mismatches are not merely bureaucratic inconveniences. They can prevent employment, obstruct education, impede health care, and violate basic dignity.