Citizens normally look to their own governments to guarantee their human rights and physical security. When people are forced to flee, it is often because they can no longer rely on their government ...

A coalition of human rights organizations urged the international community on Friday to safeguard abortion care providers. A report, released on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, ...

Nowhere do human-rights organizations more crudely politicize human rights than in the case of Israel. The problem begins with the United Nations’ betrayal of its principles. The preamble to the ...

Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we ...

Human rights organizations in Latin America issued a joint statement on Friday, expressing deep concern about the systematic non-compliance of several Latin American states with international human ...

The ACLU, Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch called on universities nationwide to protect their students’ First Amendment right to hold pro-Palestine protests in an open letter ...

The interim government has used arbitrary detention to target perceived political opponents and has yet to deliver systemic reforms to protect human rights, says the rights organisation ...

The propensity of influential human-rights organizations to justify or gloss over Hamas’ barbaric Oct. 7 massacre and unlawful and immoral use of Gaza’s civilian population as human shields ...