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Stockpile destruction stands as a significant life-saving achievement of the Mine Ban Treaty. Collectively, states have destroyed over 55 million stockpiled antipersonnel landmines, protecting countless lives and limbs. However, Sri Lanka was the last state party to fulfill its obligation, destroying its stockpile in 2021.

In recent months, LGBTQ+ rights have faced significant setbacks in many countries, with populist and authoritarian governments passing draconian laws curtailing LGBTQ+ rights.

Daily Brief, July 1, 2024.

The US State Department has released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) Report ranking nearly 200 countries’ anti-trafficking efforts.

Joint Letter – Rights Groups and Victims' Families Call for International Action in the Beirut Blast Case

The United Nations Human Rights Council should establish an international fact-finding mission into August 4, 2020, blast at Beirut’s port, 15 organizations including Human Rights Watch, and dozens of relatives of the victims of the blast said in a statement released today.

Judges are set to deliberate on a verdict in a landmark domestic trial in Guinea for gross human rights abuses committed by government security forces in 2009.

Uzbekistan authorities have increasingly cracked down on calls for independence in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan since protests broke out there two years ago.

Human Rights Watch on June 26 submitted recommendations to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. All victims of gross human rights violations in Palestine and Israel are owed reparation.