The Latest Breaking News from HRW

An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture

A Greek court on Tuesday dropped charges against nine Egyptians over one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks in which rights groups said they had been made scapegoats for the failures of the Greek coastguard in the deaths of more than 600 people.

Human Rights Watch says aid workers’ convoys and facilities have been targeted at least eight times since last October.

Human Rights Watch says warnings were not issued before attacks, which have killed or injured dozens

The number of Palestinians killed there by Israeli soldiers and settlers has reached unprecedented levels.

A human rights group has urged parliament to revoke a clause in the football governance that could enable sportswashing by authoritarian states

Ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Darfur have left 25 million people in urgent need, yet the west’s attention is elsewhere

Militias in Sudan killed thousands of people – including children – during a wave of violence last year in West Darfur, the NGO Human Rights Watch said as it accused armed groups of crimes against humanity and genocide.

Human Rights Watch says ‘thousands’ killed in attacks last year targeting Masalit tribe and other non-Arab groups.