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The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is urging South Korea to revamp its sexuality education curriculum to cover age-appropriate topics. It's a crucial step if South Korea is to address the needs of all youth, curb harmful gender...

Russian women’s rights activist Alyona Popova has filed a lawsuit against the Moscow city government, claiming its use of video with facial recognition technology violates privacy rights.

A Syrian-Russian military alliance strike on a displacement compound in mid-August is an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today.

Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights groups said today

قالت "هيومن رايتس ووتش"، و"منظمة العفو الدولية"، و"مركز الخليج لحقوق الإنسان" وأكثر من 135 منظمة أخرى اليوم في رسالة إلى رئيس الإمارات الشيخ خليفة بن زايد آل نهيان إن على الإمارات الإفراج عن المدافع الحقوقي البارز أحمد منصور المسجون ظلما قبل عيد...

An Indonesian woman with a psychosocial disability faces up to five years in prison for an altercation at a mosque, the latest victim of Indonesia’s toxic “blasphemy” law.

October 10 is a historic day in Iran – For the first time, women will be allowed the basic right to attend a FIFA World Cup qualifier match. But why is there a seat limit for women? Iran’s Azadi (Freedom) Stadium holds 85,000 people, but only 3,000...

Several candidates vying for seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council have problematic rights records, and UN member states should not vote for Venezuela.

Ugandan authorities should thoroughly investigate the fatal attack on October 4, 2019 on an activist for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Mozambique’s Electoral Commission announced this weekend that 10 voting stations in Macomia, Mocimboa da Praia and Muidumbe districts will not open for the country’s general election on October 15. This will leave 5,400 voters unable to cast their...

In one holiday, Americans encounter our two most shameful and discomforting historical legacies: the genocide of the American Indian and slavery.

The awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to achieve “peace and international cooperation” will come as bittersweet news for many in Ethiopia and neighboring countries.

World news from a human rights perspective.

After years of widespread protests against government policies and brutal security force repression, a series of human rights reforms were ushered in after Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in April 2018. The government released thousands of...

Venezuela’s brutal crackdown on dissent, and its failure to tackle a humanitarian emergency that is largely of its own making, give rise to serious concerns about its fitness as a candidate for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of...