The European Union and its member states should use all available diplomatic and legal tools to press the Georgian government to end its persecution of independent civil society and the media, nine in...

While United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were en route to their Alaska meeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in Kherson,...

Two Turkmen dissident bloggers have been missing since July 24, 2025, when they were reportedly released from a Turkish deportation center, Human Rights Watch said today. Turkish authorities should en...

Suomi sai kritiikkiä Ottawan sopimuksesta irtautumisesta.

New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kyrgyz authorities to conduct a thorough, independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding journalist Azimjon Askarov’...

Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip

On July 11, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) conducted searches targeting Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of gover...

A new law adopted by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on July 22, 2025 effectively strips Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies of independence and is detrimental to the rule of law, Human Rig...

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie sehen Ihre Kinder untröstlich weinen, weil sie vor Hunger Bauchkrämpfe haben und Sie nichts tun können. Das sind die verzweifelten Hilferufe, die aus Gaza kommen.

The decision by Kazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from 16 journalists for the Kazakh service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a blatant attack on independent media, ...

Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition activist deported from Germany on November 6, 2024 after being refused asylum, is reported to have been provisionally detained for two months by a city court in D...

The UK government’s draft law to cut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation...

On June 20, the Court of Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku handed down severe prison sentences to a team of independent journalists from Abzas Media, an outlet known for its hard-hitting inves...

New York, July 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov to veto a new mass media law that would require all publications to register with the state and hea...

There has been almost no accountability for the deaths and grave injuries that occurred three years ago when security forces in Uzbekistan used unjustified force, including lethal force, to disperse m...

Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for almost eight years.

While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...

European Union member states led by France and Germany are walking back on their commitment to protect human rights and the environment in global supply chains.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and protection against torture in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.

A Western Kazakhstan woman who experienced two decades of severe domestic abuse by her former husband is to be retried for allegedly conspiring to murder him.

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The Kyrgyz authorities should drop criminal charges of “public calls to mass unrest” against two journalists from Kloop Media, a leading independent Kyrgyzstani media platform, 10 human rights groups ...

A Kyrgyz court on May 27, 2025, convicted former National Academy of Sciences researcher and whistleblower, Zhoomart Karabaev, of “incitement of mass disorder” and calling for disobedience to authorit...

Earlier this month, Sharifa Madrakhimova’s passport was tampered with and destroyed, preventing her from traveling abroad to accept an award honoring her work defending human rights in Uzbekistan.

Turkish authorities should immediately release Umidajan Bekchanova, a Turkmen dissident currently held in a deportation center in Istanbul.

Promises of flexibility obscure an exploitative labor system — but workers are fighting back.

Nine EU states are targeting the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights in a wider bid to deport unwanted migrants.

"The Commission has great concerns with this draft. If adopted as it is, it would constitute a serious breach of EU principles and law. ... We will not hesitate to take the necessary action if this dr...

– Belarusian authorities have retaliated against companies and their workers that supported peaceful anti-government protests or spoke out about human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today....

This report is based on 50 interviews with victims of and witnesses to the May 13 killings. It details the Uzbek government’s indiscriminate use of lethal force against unarmed people, describes gover...