human-rights-watch

Donors must work with the Afghan government to discourage military use of schools and make funding for schools contingent on Afghan government commitments that donor-supported schools will not be...

ISIS has routinely carried out devastating attacks that appear designed to inflict maximum death and suffering on ordinary Iraqis. The Iraqi and international strategy against ISIS should not...

Bahraini authorities should immediately release the human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, Human Rights Watch said. Rajab’s trial was scheduled to resume on December 15, 2016, on charges that...

The United Nations General Assembly should immediately suspend Saudi Arabia’s membership rights on the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. A two-thirds...

Congress has opted to continue selling cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, citing a need not to "stigmatize" the weapon. But human rights advocates pointed to the close vote, 216 to 204, as progress...

Lawyers Can’t Meet Defendants; Charges Include “Spreading Shiism”