On August 17, police in Kazakhstan detained veteran human rights defender Bakhytzhan Toregozhina and held her for several ...

In the past year, Russian authorities continued not only to enforce but to expand their harsh, retaliatory and arbitrary ...

As serious human rights violations and abuses continue to be committed in Burundi in a context of widespread impunity, and as ...

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians, in at least 14 villages and farming areas in ...

Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian ...

While United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were en route to their Alaska meeting, ...

Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National ...

El gobierno de Ecuador debería acelerar el cierre de los cerca de 240 pozos petroleros que operan en el corazón del Parque ...

Using her machete, she slashed the bushes near the men and shouted, “Leave! Do not return! No one is allowed to survey here ...

On August 4, Brazil’s Supreme Court justice issued a house arrest order for former president Jair Bolsonaro and prohibited ...

Brazil’s agrarian federal agency should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a deforested area of the ...

The US State Department approved another potential multi-million-dollar weapons sale to Nigeria on August 14, citing support ...