Cambodia has the most microcredit debt per capita anywhere in the world — debts held mainly by people living in poverty who ...

Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs voted to adopt its position amending the European Union’s landmark ...

European Union member states meeting on October 21, 2025 to discuss Hungary’s erosion of the rule of law should vote on ...

Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya ...

Lebanon’s announcement on October 9, 2025, that it has tasked the Justice Ministry with assessing the legal measures that may ...

Fifteen organizations including Human Rights Watch sent letters to European Union officials and lawmakers this week pressing ...

Human Rights Watch stands with civil society and signed this letter, alongside more than 3700 other organizations, condemning ...

Hauwa, a 25-year-old woman, was lying on the floor, shackled, and barely alive when Human Rights Watch found her in November ...

On October 9, the Bangladesh authorities filed charges against 28 people for enforced disappearances, secret detention, and ...

Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate, is increasingly using the recently amended ...

The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan ...

On Monday evening, Myanmar military paramotors dropped munitions on a candlelit Buddhist festival in Sagaing Region, killing ...