We write in advance of the 100th Pre-Session Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Malaysia to highlight areas of concern regarding the Malaysian government’s ...

The military authorities in Burkina Faso are tightening their grip on what people can see, hear, and know. On May 5, Burkina Faso’s media regulator ordered the suspension of French broadcaster ...

The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report on South Sudan offers a damning indictment of the immense ...

Reports emerged in April that the US government was considering resetting diplomatic ties with Eritrea. Doing so could ...

Human Rights Watch would like to congratulate the CEDAW Committee on the important work it has undertaking to develop this ...

The US Supreme Court paused on Monday an order by the country’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that had inflicted a serious ...

The commission established to investigate violence during and after Tanzania’s October 2025 general elections submitted its ...

When an Uzbekistan court on May 1 found the Karakalpak lawyer and blogger Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov guilty of committing ...

The Malaysian government began a refugee registration system in January 2026 that has raised protection, rights, and privacy ...

Sweden’s political parties should clarify their positions in advance of the September 2026 general election on how they ...

Georgia’s new centralized health database law took effect on May 1, creating serious risks of privacy violations and ...

We are writing ahead of the 11 May EU-Syria High Level Political Dialogue, which comes at a critical juncture for Syrians who ...