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Pakistani authorities on September 17, 2026, rearrested human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha soon after the Supreme Court granted them bail.

Venezuela needs to take urgent measures and carry out institutional reforms to protect people’s basic rights, Human Rights Watch said, following its first official visit to the country since 2008.

On September 11, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General published reports outlining findings from visits to Krome North Service Processing Center and the now-shuttered “Alligator Alcatraz,” immigration detention facilities in Florida.

As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, and a situation the Special Rapporteur has described as “gender apartheid,” continued scrutiny and engagement by the Human Rights Council remains essential.

The Turkish government’s major crackdown on groups and activists defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people threatens the rule of law and fundamental rights.

Canada’s New Society Institute released a report arguing that Canada’s government needs to change its approach to developing policies that support women with disabilities across the country. The report is rooted in the fundamental insight that many women are both caregivers and people who need care themselves— and are poorly served by policy frameworks that see them as only one or the other.

Georgian authorities are using vague administrative offenses to jail or heavily fine people for online speech, deepening the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is repealing limits on climate-warming pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants, the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

Satirist and political commentator Azamat Omarov, who had been in pre-trial detention in Kazakhstan since mid-April on “inciting discord” charges, struck a plea bargain with the prosecution, under the terms of which he pled guilty, and on September 15, was released.