Sarah Yager is Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. She worked on human rights under three U.S. presidents and from ...
Human rights faced severe tests worldwide in 2024, with democratic institutions under strain and humanitarian law repeatedly ...
On January 14, prominent activist and former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, began a ...
Cuban dissident and human rights activist Jose Daniel Ferrer told Reuters on Thursday he had been released from jail and was ...
Eight years after Donald Trump was first elected President, his opponents are once again taking to the streets in protest in ...
The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...
The Commissioner for Human Rights is a non-judicial independent institution created in 1999 by the Council of Europe to ...
Here are some of the findings from UNAIDS' new report on HIV and human rights, and what they could mean for the fight against ...
A joint statement urged the military regime and all armed actors in Burma to de-escalate violence, respect international ...
Al-Qaradawi’s family seeks Lebanese PM’s intervention to prevent his deportation to Egypt, fearing risks to his life. The PA’s ban on Al Jazeera is part of a broader crackdown on those ...