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The Chinese government should immediately release workers and students arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared during a nationwide crackdown since mid-2018, Human Rights Watch said today. Those held include factory workers, labor activists,...

Tunisia’s parliament should take the landmark step of granting women equal rights in inheritance, Human Rights Watch said today. 

(نيويورك) — قالت "هيومن رايتس ووتش" اليوم إن على الحكومة التايلندية الحرص على عدم إعادة اللاجئ المعترف به حكيم علي محمد علي العريبي إلى البحرين. في حال عودته سيواجه خطر الاعتقال التعسفي وسوء المعاملة على يَد السلطات البحرينية.

Following your own religious beliefs shouldn’t be a crime, but in Indonesia, new technologies are helping authorities identify and potentially prosecute religious minorities who follow “deviant teachings.”

Given the grave nature of these accusations, and the horrific claims surrounding the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, how can the heads of state pictured below meet so proudly, so gratuitously, so gleefully with...

This week, a medical board confirmed that Saleem Ahmad, a prisoner on death row for 14 years, has chronic schizophrenia. Ahmad, 50, had been scheduled to be executed in November 2017, but a court suspended his execution and ordered a medical board...

The Federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to prevent cervical cancer deaths, which are largely preventable.

Thousands of farmers from across India will march to the parliament in New Delhi on November 30, to demand action on the deepening agrarian crisis that has left a trail of heavy debts and suicide in its wake.

The Argentine judiciary on November 28, 2018, took steps toward a formal investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s possible responsibility for war crimes in Yemen and alleged torture of Saudi citizens, Human Rights Watch said today....

This report documents how state and federal policies contribute to a treacherous reproductive health environment in Alabama, where women are dying from cervical cancer at rates higher than in any other US state. The report presents the experiences...

This report evaluates patterns of arrest and detention conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 25 years after the Oslo Accords granted Palestinians a degree of self-rule over these areas and more than a decade after Hamas seized effective...

 قالت "هيومن رايتس ووتش" اليوم إن السلطات القضائية الأرجنتينية بدأت النظر في مذكرة حول دور ولي العهد السعودي الأمير محمد بن سلمان في جرائم حرب مزعومة ارتكبها التحالف بقيادة السعودية في اليمن، وأعمال تعذيب نفّذها مسؤولون سعوديون. يُتوقع حضور ولي...

Hunger, trafficking, exhaustion, death; those are some the risks faced by Central American migrants during their journey. Whether they joined caravans or trekked alone, why would mothers, children, fathers and brothers risk so much to leave their...

Argentine judicial authorities have begun examining a submission concerning the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in connection with alleged war crimes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and torture by Saudi officials, Human Rights...