A new report recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries and underscores ICIJ’s reporting on Beijing's tactics to ...

In this Q+A, legal and human rights expert Len Rubenstein, a distinguished professor of the practice and interim director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins ...

With Saudi Arabia’s debut Riyadh Comedy Festival wrapping up its two-week run, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the comedians who participated to speak up. Following Aziz Ansari‘s announcement that ...

Persecution of Christians worldwide has increased significantly in both quantity and intensity, human rights experts in ...

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In a year when much of the news felt incredibly grim, Human Rights Watch wants to take time to share the progress that we’ve seen – and that’s easy to overlook – around human rights. In many places ...

The Council today prolonged the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime – targeting individuals and entities responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide - for three years, ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, ...

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Theresa May criticises Tory policy on net zero, judges and human rights - The former prime minister’s government committed ...