Congress approved five of six federal funding bills this week, delaying funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over concerns regarding recent immigration crackdowns, including killings ...

On February 3, a devastating collision between a Greek Coast Guard vessel and a migrant boat occurred off the Greek island of Chios. The collision resulted in 15 deaths and 24 people injured, ...

In the wake of the Bondi Hannukah attack, the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in three decades, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit, to “engage with ...

Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Africa director, and Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, senior Crisis and Conflict advisor, ...

Civilians in Ukraine experienced serious conflict-related violations over the past year, with more targeted and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Human Rights Watch statement to a consultation of the ICRC's Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to ...

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 ...

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 ...