The Houthis’ stepped-up detentions of civil society and UN agency members has contributed to increasing the humanitarian aid ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in its sixty-first session.

Human Rights Watch thanks the Special Rapporteur for his report. The human rights situation in Burundi remains deeply concerning, with risk factors for serious human rights violations and atrocity ...

We write in advance of the 78th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the “Committee”) and its review of Colombia. This submission focuses on issues of poverty and ...

At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will present its report on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, ...

(New York) – A new United Nations report finds that the North Korean government has increased the use of surveillance, forced labor, and severe punishments over the past decade, maintaining “total ...

Human Rights Watch submits this report in advance of the 103rd pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of El Salvador. The submission focuses on violations of ...

In the past year, Russian authorities continued not only to enforce but to expand their harsh, retaliatory and arbitrary authoritarian practices. This involved escalating repression and enforced ...

(Geneva) – Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year since President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...