When read in connection with South Africa’s political history, Phaethon and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice narratives provide ...

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...

As Human Rights Month draws to a close, South Africa should never let the sun set on inclusive human rights for all its ...

Human rights were not only violated in big public explosions. They were also violated by the relentless daily injustices of ...

I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to share an assessment of your government’s response to heinous abuses by criminal groups since you announced an “internal armed conflict” in Ecuador over four ...

The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect ...

Danielle Chubb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Trump Endangers the Handover of the UK’s ‘Last Colony’ The halt to funding for the NED threatens to shut down groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North Korea. Last week, the ...