A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s policy to detain and deport foreign scholars over their pro-Palestinian views violates the US constitution and was designed to intentionally chill free speech rights. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Germany faces a stark but straightforward choice: uphold international law and align with most of its EU partners, or continue obstructing EU action, risking further isolation and reputational damage, and complicity in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Hundreds of young Moroccans took to the streets of at least 11 cities, denouncing corruption and blasting the government for pouring money into international sports events while neglecting health and education. Authorities have responded with mass arrests apnews.com/article/moro...

Predatory lending by microfinance institutions in Cambodia is driving land dispossession and human rights abuses against Indigenous communities. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

North Carolina's Medicaid support for food and housing is shutting down, following cuts Congress approved in July under President Trump’s signature legislation, which extended tax cuts and slashed social safety net programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/h...

Trump’s memorandum directing law enforcement to investigate a sprawling, imaginary conspiracy to foment political violence in the US is a serious threat to human rights and democratic institutions: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Sonia Dahmani is imprisoned since May 2024 for remarks she made on the TV/radio under Decree-Law 54 on Cybercrime. The authorities even retaliated against her sister Ramla for fiercely advocating for her release & sentenced her in absentia to 2years in prison this July, under the same law. #Tunisia

Israel is razing Gaza city, continuing its practice of mass demolitions and leaving nowhere for people to return to. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In a rare and unexpected move, Egypt’s President Sisi rejected a deeply flawed draft Criminal Procedure Code. MPs should use this opportunity to substantially revise the bill and begin to reverse Egypt’s protracted human rights crisis www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Algerian authorities should end excessive control over civil society groups and parliament should enact a new associations law based on international human rights. A preliminary draft bill currently under consideration would further undermine freedom of association www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Sonia Dahmani, a detained Tunisian lawyer, writer, and commentator known for her bold defense of human rights and civil liberties, honored by @pressfreedom as she served a 5 year sentence: cpj.org/2025/09/cpj-...

The decision of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to withdraw from the International Criminal Court will jeopardize access to justice for victims of atrocity crimes, putting all civilians at greater risk. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Sisi's decision not to sign a flawed Criminal Procedure Code and to send it back to parliament for revision was a positive move. Parliament should completely revise the draft law to eliminate a series of provisions that raised human rights concerns. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Syrian authorities promised accountability for the March atrocities, but have offered little transparency on whether their probe examines responsibility of senior military or civilian leaders, or how they’ll hold those with command authority to account. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Incredible news today that Sisi pardoned Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt's most prominent political prisoner who has been imprisoned more or less continuously since 2014. He should be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Germany’s government is set to make major social security cuts, and replace the only recently-created “Citizen’s Income” with a more punitive “New Income for Jobseekers”. These plans will increase poverty. Human rights can help guide the debate back to what matters. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

HRW found the US maritime attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessels violate international human rights law and amount to extrajudicial killings www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria since December 2024 have carried out a range of abuses, including the war crime of forced displacement. They have seized and demolished homes and arbitrarily detained residents and transferred them to Israel www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Qatari authorities should set aside the baseless conviction of Remy Rowhani, the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar, and reject the prosecution’s attempt to increase his sentence www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Iran’s authorities have failed to conduct effective, impartial, and independent investigations into serious human rights violations and crimes under international law during and since the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Lebanon’s parliament should ensure that a draft media law it is considering upholds the right to freedom of expression: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

A UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“What this tells me is that this president believes he can kill anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances—and not have to justify it. And that he will be immune from accountability.” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

An attack on a media center in Sanaa, the capital, by Israeli forces on September 10, is one more example of the danger for media workers in Yemen. The attack was one of several Israeli forces carried out that day, which killed at least 35 people www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Libyan authorities should urgently investigate and provide information on two missing members of parliament after graphic images and video surfaced recently, increasing grave concerns for their safety www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

New HRW report out today finds Yemen’s warring parties, including the Houthis, the STC, and the Yemeni government have committed serious human rights violations against journalists and media institutions in Yemen. Many journalists have fled the country. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Moroccan authorities should urgently overturn the 30-month sentence of an activist, Ibtissame Lachgar, convicted on blasphemy charges for wearing a t-shirt they deemed offensive. Authorities need to ensure that the right to free expression is respected www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Flotillas are a means by which ordinary people can peacefully speak out on the world stage against extermination. But there is no substitute for meaningful action by governments to halt abuses and ensure accountability. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Hundreds of migrant workers employed in Saudi Arabia by the manufacturing and supply company Sendan International did not receive their salaries for up to eight months. They include workers employed in state-owned oil company Aramco project sites. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Catastrophic floods from heavy rainfall in Pakistan this past week displaced at least four million people, destroyed thousands of acres of crops, and severely damaged critical infrastructure. At least 900 people died. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Egyptian authorities have since July carried out an abusive campaign of mass arrests and prosecutions targeting online content creators. Authorities arrested or prosecuted at least 29 people for online content, including at least 19 women and a child www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Egypt's president Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has already served an unjust 5 year sentence www.reuters.com/world/uk/egy...

Forces belonging to the Houthis, who control much of Yemen, raided several UN offices and detained at least 19 UN staff on August 31, adding to dozens of UN and civil society staff already detained since 2024. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Spain will ban Israel-bound ships and aircraft carrying weapons from Spanish ports or entering Spanish airspace, impose an embargo on Israeli settlement goods, and will not allow anyone "who has participated directly in genocide in Gaza" to enter Spain. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Not clear what possible legal justification there is for the extrajudicial execution of alleged drug traffickers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Human Rights Watch has published a Q&A examining the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement, systemic racial inequalities, and other related human rights violations www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

At least five Iranian ballistic missiles struck populated areas of Israel during the June 2025 armed conflict in violation of the laws of war and should be investigated as war crimes. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

HRW and Amnesty: Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

The UK should publicly pledge to incorporate strong human rights conditions before a Free Trade Agreement between the UK and the Gulf Cooperation Council is signed: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

The Trump administration will suspend approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

ICJ on Egyptian authorities’ perpetration of a litany of human rights violations against human rights defender Dr Ahmad Amasha as a result of his ongoing prosecution on spurious “terrorism” charges since his arrest in June 2020 www.icj.org/egypt-end-gr...

The United States should immediately halt the transfer of immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where they face abusive and inhumane detention conditions www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

HRW is hiring an immigrant rights researcher focused on the US: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

HRW: Lebanese authorities should immediately release the son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal Gaddafi, whom they have wrongly imprisoned for nearly a decade, and provide him with appropriate compensation for holding him arbitrarily. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Egyptian government employees wielding a chain and stick detained and assaulted a 22-year-old man and his 15-year-old brother at the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations during a pro-Palestine protest in New York theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...

HRW: Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against largely West and Central African migrants and asylum seekers, often when they were seeking to leave or transit the country www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called on Egyptian authorities to put an end to a practice that allows Government critics to be held arbitrarily and for prolonged periods, even after serving their sentences or completing maximum pretrial detention www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Human Rights Watch has determined that direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023 has made the US a party to the conflict. US personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

The Israeli government has killed another five Palestinian journalists today alongside 15 others in two airstrikes on a hospital in southern Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...