Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Africa director, and Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, senior Crisis and Conflict advisor, ...
The dissolution of political parties comes amid Burkina Faso’s deepening Islamist insurgency, underscoring how the country’s armed conflict is unfolding alongside a sharp contraction of political ...
European Union institutions and member states’ failure to prioritize human rights undermines the rule of law, democratic ...
Rights-respecting democracies should form a strategic alliance to preserve the rules-based international order, which is ...
Southern African countries committed serious human rights violations throughout 2025, creating vicious cycles of abuse and ...
The Australian government expanded its abusive refugee and migrant policies in 2025, Human Rights Watch said in its World ...
Civilians in Ukraine experienced serious conflict-related violations over the past year, with more targeted and ...
The Labour government in the UK, during its first full year in authority has carried out punitive immigration policies that have emboldened the far right, an authoritarian crackdown on protest rights, ...
The Egyptian authorities during 2025 systematically dismantled basic freedoms and suffocated civic space, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2026. Economic crises, coupled with ...
In 2025, Pakistani authorities deployed vague and overbroad laws to intensify their crackdown on media freedom, political ...
The Washington Accords, signed in December 2025 between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda under US mediation, promised an end to the devastating armed conflict in eastern Congo through troop ...
Under relentless pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration, and long undermined by China and Russia, the ...