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The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit ...
Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global ...
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists, ...
The Vietnamese government should immediately release the imprisoned journalist Le Huu Minh Tuan and allow him to obtain ...
The European Commission’s forthcoming 2026–2030 LGBTIQ Equality Strategy represents a crucial opportunity to reaffirm and expand the EU’s role as a global leader in human rights. While much of the ...
Turning my own lived experience into advocacy is what motivated me to participate in the UN’s global annual disability rights ...
Key developments around the world, however, offer a reminder that the global fight for environmental human rights is waged in frontline communities as well as in legislative halls.
Juneteenth, celebrated annually in the United States on June 19, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Black people.
The withdrawal of five European countries from a longstanding and effective international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines unnecessarily puts civilians at risk.
Human Rights Watch documented that in October 9, 2019, Tataw posted a video on his Facebook profile praising the kidnapping of two girls and their father for violating a school ban imposed by ...
United States Events of 2024 Supporters listen as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, concedes the election, at Howard University on November 6, 2024, in Washington, DC.
Over the past 26 years since the Mine Ban Treaty entered into force, compliance with its core provisions has generally been ...