Demonizing immigrants as criminals is not only inaccurate, but dangerous. Undocumented residents play an important role in keeping communities safe. Just ask residents of Gypsum Colorado.

Venezuelan intelligence and security forces have detained and tortured military personnel suspected of plotting against the government.

Greek law enforcement officers at the land border with Turkey in the northeastern Evros region routinely summarily return asylum seekers and migrants.

Kenyan police and the military are harassing and intimidating environmental rights activists in Lamu county, coast region. 

Federal and state government efforts to reduce prescription opioids are inadvertently harming chronic pain patients. Many patients are involuntarily cut off medications that improve their lives or say they are unable to find a doctor willing to care for them. 

Groups that emerged from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas are terrorizing the mostly Afro-Colombian municipality of Tumaco.

Nigerian authorities have failed to ensure justice for the killings of hundreds of members of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) since 2015. 

The case of mountaintop removal highlights the dangers of letting industry interests, rather than science, lead regulatory policy.

ACTING UP - Ludmila Alexeeva

Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is spilling across its borders, Human Rights Watch said today.