The European Union and its members have backtracked on their support for continued international scrutiny of the human rights ...

To mark the 10th anniversary of our Disability Rights Division, we are publishing a series of dispatches on a range of topics to advance the rights of people with disabilities and older people, ...

After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses ...

At least 30 people have reportedly been killed, hundreds injured, and thousands displaced, since clashes erupted on July 31 between factions in Ain el-Helweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in ...

Governments and international financial institutions should make a commitment to create social security systems that enable ...

All civil society groups participating in the on-going EU-ASEAN Civil Society Forum, including co-chairs International ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder by Saudi agents. His killing has become a symbol of a Saudi ...

We write to you on behalf of Human Rights Watch to raise concerns over the Protected Birth Bill, set to be voted in South Korea’s National Assembly on October 25, 2023. Human Rights Watch is an ...

This submission is an update to our 2020 pre-session submission and focuses on violations by the French government relating ...

(Geneva) – The Vietnamese government should face close scrutiny at its upcoming United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR ...

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns regarding the human rights situation in Vietnam. Since its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2019, Vietnam’s human rights ...

The South Korean government should reconsider the new Protected Birth Bill, which promotes anonymous births and adoption or orphanage care as solutions to unregistered births and unwanted pregnancies, ...