Author: Huma Rights Watch

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for early childhood education and provide free, state-run pre-primary education to all children.

The Trump administration is sending hundreds of people who can’t be deported to their own countries, because of the danger they would face, to African countries where they have no connections.

Blogger Sirojiddin Adilov’s October 5 conviction on dubious extortion and fraud charges raises serious questions about fair trial standards in Uzbekistan, as well as the government’s commitment to upholding freedom of expression.

Bahraini authorities have rearrested at least nine men who had previously been released from prison by royal pardon.

A record number of countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council this week voted to support a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan.

Since early 2026, Salvadoran courts have begun convicting people in mass trials of hundreds of defendants at a time, relying on weak evidence and giving them no real chance to defend themselves.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should press Myanmar’s junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, to end human rights abuses during his visit to Kuala Lumpur on October 7, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.

Three weeks ago, 26-year-old Lao activist Khieo Lapchanh, an asylum seeker in Thailand, vanished in Samut Sakhon province following his shift at the restaurant where he worked.

– The Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen have sent at least eight people involved in human rights and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution, on espionage-related charges punishable by death, since August 18, 2026.

Tunisian authorities failed to ensure an adequate supply of electricity and water during two months of extreme summer heat, undermining the right to health and endangering lives.

The Sri Lankan government’s latest attempt to replace its abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) retains numerous provisions that have enabled serious human rights violations.

Today, Christa Pike remains unconscious on a ventilator, and in critical condition after the Tennessee government’s failed execution attempt.

The mass arrest of attendees at a small left-wing party’s meeting in Dhaka on September 26 is the latest incident in the Bangladesh authorities’ ongoing assault on civil and political rights.

Nearly 5,700 men and boys held as alleged Islamic State (ISIS) members and transferred to Iraq in early 2026 are at risk of abuse including imminent prosecution for adults in unfair trials, followed by execution.

The United States and coalition countries have yet to provide genuine justice or redress for war crimes and other grave abuses in Afghanistan in the 25 years since the war began on October 7, 2001.

United States forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ecuadorian fishing vessels between August 28 and September 16, 2026, detaining over 140 of 160 crew members and abusing some.

US immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Ortega-Murillo government has stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong, in his September 28 address to the United Nations General Assembly, asserted that the country’s status as a permanent nuclear state is “uncompromisingly and permanently fixed, both physically and legally.” This was an unmistakable reference to a March constitutional amendment that codified the centrality of North Korea’s nuclear doctrine.

In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic’s self-proclaimed interim president. He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called the Seleka.

The National Human Rights Commission in Mauritius earlier this year urged the government to legally recognize same-sex marriages, stating that the refusal to recognize such unions is discriminatory and lacks justification under domestic law.

Nebraska’s efforts to implement new, federally mandated work requirements for Medicaid underscore fears that millions of people will experience avoidable barriers to healthcare coverage.

An unusual trial will begin next week in London’s High Court, brought by the families of two 23-year-old Tanzanian men who were fatally shot in 2019 at a Canadian-owned gold mine in northern Tanzania

Uzbek officials should immediately ensure the safety and well-being of an imprisoned Karakalpak blogger and lawyer, Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, and secure his release, Human Rights Watch said today. Since his conviction and transfer to prison in 2023, prison officials and other prisoners have apparently beaten and subjected Tazhimuratov to other humiliations repeatedly and with impunity.

A South Sudanese political commentator remains in prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without charge a year after his arrest.

Human Rights Watch is calling on Bhutan to free 28 political prisoners it says are being held in poor conditions. The group says the detentions conflict with the country’s international image.

Human Rights Watch says South African authorities must do more to protect women amid a severe gender-based violence crisis. The group argues that warnings alone are not an adequate response.

Niger’s military junta has stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, Human Rights Watch says. The move raises concerns about due process and possible statelessness.

Human Rights Watch reports that women political prisoners in Myanmar are being tortured, sexually abused and denied medical care. The findings highlight continuing abuses under the junta.

Human Rights Watch says new laws in Bangladesh are weakening human-rights protections and reversing earlier reforms. The group warns the changes could empower abusive security forces.