(Beirut) – Houthi authorities have arbitrarily arrested over 20 Christians in Yemen over the last three months, Human Rights Watch said today. The Houthis should immediately release them, along with ...

Georgia’s ruling party proposed on January 28 a new package of legislation that would criminalize core civic activity and erect sweeping barriers to political participation.

Mali’s junta has jailed a prominent journalist, sparking renewed concerns over media freedom in the country. Malian journalists confirmed national and international media reports that police arrested ...

The dissolution of political parties comes amid Burkina Faso’s deepening Islamist insurgency, underscoring how the country’s ...

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

Congress approved five of six federal funding bills this week, delaying funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Rights-respecting democracies should form a strategic alliance to preserve the rules-based international order, which is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...