Ethiopia escalates crackdown on civil society, suspending independent human rights groups, denouncing lack of independence and exceeding mandate.

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to new prime ...

In late 2018 a Saudi journalist living in exile in Canada, who liked to work out in between recording YouTube critiques of ...

There has not yet been a large-scale sweep by agents in any of those public spaces locally, but that hasn’t quieted fears. Rumors ricocheting across the region have for many begun to feel like a ...

Amnesty International called for urgent international action to address what it described as "a state-led campaign of mass arbitrary detention" of thousands in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where people ...

Kazakhstan should promptly express its support for and implement the recommendations made by member states at the UN Human ...

Human Rights Watch joins twelve other human rights organization to urge the UK Foreign Secretary to secure the release of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah during his trip to Egypt.

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule ...

Syrian National Army (SNA) coalition that hit a Kurdish Red Crescent ambulance on January 18, 2025, in northern Syria is an ...

A horrific storm – the worst in nearly a century – ravaged the area. It leveled homes and wrecked infrastructure. In the aftermath, authorities weren’t responding fast enough to help survivors, who ...

Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that ...

A recent video of a woman being tortured in Libyan refugee camps is further proof that agreements signed by the EU and Italy ...