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This week brought the bombshell announcement that Ivan Safronov and Maxim Ivanov, two veteran reporters for Kommersant, were pressured into resigning, spurring the paper’s entire politics desk to quit in protest.

Venezuelan authorities should immediately release Jesús Medina, who they have arbitrarily imprisoned because of his reporting for nearly nine months.

Government cuts to welfare over the past decade have resulted in tens of thousands of poor families in England left without enough food to eat, a clear breach of the government’s duty to ensure adequate food, Human Rights Watch said in a report...

Trending rights tweets this week: India takes a big step forward for the rights of women and girls as Alabama takes a giant leap backwards; yellow card warning to FIFA – don’t reward Saudi Arabia (beheadings, Khashoggi killing, repression of women)...

Tunisia should revise its laws and practices to recognize and protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Human Rights Watch said today on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.

Crowds waving rainbow flags broke into cheers – and tears of joy – as news spread that Taiwan’s lawmakers had passed a bill today allowing same-sex couples to marry.

The Italian government should firmly reject a proposal to fine shipmasters up to €5,500 for every person they rescue and take to Italy, Human Rights Watch said today. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed this and...

(New York) – China should not forcibly deport seven detained North Koreans who face a grave risk of torture and other abuses if returned to North Korea.

The hum of an aircraft hovering above. An explosion. Children crying in terror as their parents pick them up and flee. Blood, dust, and destruction everywhere.

Iran’s Parliament on May 13, 2019, approved an amendment to allow Iranian women to pass their nationality to their children, Human Rights Watch said today. The Guardian Council, the last body needing to approve the amendment, should adopt the long...

Gulgeldy Annaniyazov’s long spell in prison was supposed to end this year, but without concerted international action his ordeal will drag on.

 قالت "هيومن رايتس ووتش" اليوم إن قرار قطر بسحب الجنسية تعسفا من أسر من عشيرة الغفران، ترك بعض أفراد العشيرة من دون جنسية بعد عشرين سنة وحرمهم من حقوق أساسية.

The United Nations Security Council’s decision to hold an informal meeting on Cameroon on May 13, 2019 gives momentum to international efforts to address the human rights crisis in the country’s Anglophone regions.