Human Rights Watch

A human rights group is calling on the Australian government to urgently deliver laws around the use of images of children.

Fourteen activists and former elected oficials, including an Australian citizen, now face anywhere from 3 years to life ...

Two pivotal economic players in Germany, Volkswagen and BASF Group, are faced with serious criticism for their business ...

Korean human rights defenders have revealed the inhuman treatment meted out by China's communist regime toward North Korean ...

Human Rights Watch holds a news conference at 9:45 p.m. ET, on Jan. 11, in Jakarta, Indonesia, to ...

The Chinese regime has been conducting mass systemic DNA collection on Tibetan civilians, with up to 1.2 million ...

An advocacy group is calling on the Australian government to sanction Chinese officials for human rights abuses in ...

Burma's military junta has executed four democracy activists convicted of terrorism in a move swiftly condemned by international ...

Commentary The responses of the UK government to the COVID-19 pandemic had an overwhelming impact on human rights ...

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive ...

GENEVA—Now that the Beijing Winter Olympics is over, U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet must release her long-delayed report ...

The Vietnamese government has placed more than 170 rights activists, including their family members, under house arrest and ...

A respected science journal has withdrawn a study that collected DNA samples from Tibetans and Uyghurs without informed ...

Australia has been urged to use its close ties with Vietnam to demand the communist regime in the ...

KABUL—Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly “disappeared” more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking ...

The Australian government has joined the increasing number of organisations concerned over the safety of Chinese tennis star ...

The communist regime in Beijing is using the popular apps WeChat and TikTok to exert influence over Americans ...

OTTAWA—A human rights group says in a new report that Iran has harassed families of passengers killed aboard ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—The Dutch government announced on Sept. 18 it is holding Syria responsible under international law for ...

A coalition of more than 300 rights groups are calling for the United Nations to create a “monitoring ...

The Chinese regime's intensifying efforts to thwart global scrutiny of its human rights abuses pose an "existential threat" ...

The executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) was denied entry into Hong Kong on Jan. 12, just ...

A U.S. lawmaker has condemned the Chinese regime for sanctioning American nonprofit organizations in response to the enactment ...

GENEVA—The United States, embroiled in a trade war with China, should also impose sanctions on China for detaining ...

Seven North Koreans were recently caught and detained in China while attempting to escape across the border. “China ...

A surveillance app used by Chinese authorities in the northwestern province of Xinjiang designates 36 types of people ...

BEIJING—A prominent church pastor in southwest China is being held by authorities on suspicion of inciting subversion, Human ...