Category: Human Rights

According to gender equality agency, UN Women, the new haven announced on Friday will provide survivors with protection, psychosocial support and assistance rebuilding their lives amid escalating gang violence. Speaking from Port au Prince, the agency’s Marie Goretti Nduwayo said that growing gang violence – which has caused rampant insecurity and mass displacement – used to […]

HRP Announces Recipients of 2026-2027 Henigson Fellowship We are excited to announce that HRP has awarded its 2026-27 Henigson Fellowship to Namashya Karuna Arachchige LLM ‘26 and Tupalishe Mulwafu LLM’26. HRP’s post-graduate fellowships are designed to help launch the careers of students who have demonstrated great promise as human rights-engaged students and advocates while at […]

(Geneva) – The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) adoption of a new global treaty for decent working conditions in the gig economy is a major step toward protecting the rights of millions of workers worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. At its 114th session in Geneva, on June 12, 2026, the International Labour Conference adopted the […]

The Swedish government has dropped its proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 for serious crimes, Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said on June 11. Instead, officials will present parliament with a proposal to lower the age from 15 to 14. While that is better than 13, it would still be the wrong […]

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has verified that at least 274 civilians were killed and 1,763 injured last month – a 93 per cent increase compared with May 2025 and a 23 per cent increase over April 2026.  “With more than 2,000 civilian casualties, the month of May saw more civilian casualties than any other month since April […]

Azerbaijani authorities’ renewed detention of exiled journalist Afgan Sadigov raises serious concerns about transnational repression and the apparent manipulation of legal procedures across borders to silence a government critic.  Several masked men in civilian clothing detained Sadigov in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku on June 8, according to Sadigov’s family and lawyer. Later that day, a […]

In recent weeks, Islamabad’s Capital Development Authority (CDA) completed the first wave of demolitions of informal settlements across the city. Muslim Colony in Bari Imam, in existence since the 1960s, is now entirely leveled. Allama Iqbal Colony in Sector G-7, home to more than a thousand families, many of them who work as sanitation workers for the […]

Play Video Read a text description of this video Soundbite: I cannot live without fear because discrimination is very widespread here in Malawi against us, people with albinism.  Soundbite: We walk around in fear, especially when we are in public places because, according to the beliefs people have, if they take our bones, they will […]

The US government wants big investments in critical minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while asserting that US companies will contribute to the region’s “peace, prosperity, and dignity.” But any meaningful contribution to economic development will need the US and Congolese governments to address persistent patterns of corruption and human rights abuses in the […]

CÚCUTA, Colombia — On Saturday, June 6, 2026, prominent investigative journalist and press freedom advocate Cristian Hernando Herrera Nariño was shot and killed outside his home in the northeastern border city of Cúcuta. Herrera, who served as the editor-in-chief for regional digital media outlets Cúcuta Real and Cúcuta al Rojo Vivo, was targeted by armed […]