Five United Nations special rapporteurs expressed concern over potential human rights violations in an Oct. 14 letter to acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, obtained by ...

In August 2025, the U.S Department of State released its annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which omitted previously reported human rights violations, including "political freedoms, ...

Human Rights Watch thanks the Special Rapporteur for his report. The human rights situation in Burundi remains deeply concerning, with risk factors for serious human rights violations and atrocity ...

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has raised alarm over a series of pressing human rights violations across the country, including from Stilfontein mining tragedies, Zanzou torture ...

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement,[1] systemic racial ...

A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday accused British soldiers of decades of sexual misconduct, violence, human rights violations, and environmental harm during their tenure in the country. These ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations human rights' chief warned on Monday that "disturbing trends", including the glorification of violence and the retreat of some states from the multilateral system, ...

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

Dhaka, Dec 31: A prominent human rights organization in Bangladesh has reported a significant rise in rights violations throughout the nation, including mob violence, extrajudicial killings, deaths in ...

Some 4,000 Filipinos marched in the capital Manila, denouncing "gross human rights violations and international humanitarian law abuses” by the government in the Catholic-majority nation. The marchers ...

SMEX's analysis finds that Meta's delayed 2024 human rights report fails to address over-moderation and opaque takedowns in MENA, exposing persistent threats to freedom of expression and ...