For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected areas. Today the Earth faces a global biodiversity crisis, with more than ...

Human Rights Watch’s World Report is being published today. It’s our annual look at the conditions in some 100 countries around the globe and an overall assessment of where humanity stands in terms of ...

When Indian PM Narendra Modi visits Australia this week, there will be important conversations around trade, investment, geopolitics, technology and security — human rights should also be central to ...

Social justice organizations need alternative, independent, and flexible sources of funding to build sustainable futures for the human rights field.

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward. Carter created a foreign policy agenda ...

On the heels of a tech-centric Summit for Democracy, the White House released a series of recommendations titled ‘Guiding Principles on Government Use of Surveillance Technologies,’ marking the ...

Editor’s Note: Carine Coudeville is vice president for human rights at TotalEnergies, a French energy and petroleum company that produces a range of energy products, including oil, biofuels, natural ...

Thinkers on the left are often ambivalent toward the rhetoric of human rights. On the one hand, human rights have been a venerable part of left discourse since the eighteenth century. More recently, ...

Human rights in the age of artificial intelligence are no longer an abstract concern; they are fast becoming an operational constraint on how data is collected, analyzed, and turned into evidence. For ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia breached international human rights law by detaining a group of young asylum seekers in immigration detention in Nauru. The committee ...

A coalition of human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), issued a joint statement on Monday urging the government of Bangladesh to refrain from adopting the current version of the ...