The Australian government increasingly violated the rights of children in the criminal justice system in 2024.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, which took office in February 2024, is perpetuating a longstanding ...

Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in ...

Today the United States endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, a political commitment to protect education during war. By ...

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024.

Human Rights Watch joined 170 other human rights and environmental organizations and trade unions calling on the European ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...

Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the ...

Civilians in East Africa and the Horn bore the brunt of armed conflicts between government forces and opposition armed groups ...

As you would expect, it makes for some grim reading. In much of the world, government repression has expanded and deepened, ...

The events of 2024 have shown that even in the darkest times there are those who dare to resist oppression and demonstrate the courage to seek progress.

Warring parties in Yemen, especially the Houthis, further repressed civil society and obstructed and endangered the provision of humanitarian aid in 2024.