MOSCOW -- Leading Russian activists said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry assured them on Wednesday that Washington is concerned about the Kremlin's...

BAGA, Nigeria -- Satellite photographs and witness statements Tuesday strongly challenged denials by Nigeria's government about mass casualties and da...

BEIJING -- Human rights groups are urging U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to raise the ill-treatment of dissidents and other rights concerns during...

If the Hague initiative is going to make a real difference in the lives of women, it needs to take a broader view of the problem and address the full spectrum of women's needs during conflict.

For a country that bases its laws and culture on the fundamental word of God, whom it believes gave it life, it is surely an extraordinary irony that it then plays the role of God in taking life away.

BEIRUT -- The Syrian regime is expanding its use of widely banned cluster bombs, an international human rights group said Saturday as the deadlocked c...

Imagine being taken to the hospital by a family member against your will, put in a solitary cell and forced to sleep, eat and defecate in the same 4x4 space. For many people with mental disabilities around the world, this is a familiar scenario.

BEIRUT — An international human rights organization says the Syrian military fired at least four ballistic missiles into the embattled northern ...

MEXICO CITY — Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in a report Wednesday that cites 249 cases of disappearances t...

To suggest that Israel be exempt and not held to account for its abuses of the human rights of a people it holds captive is the definition of "chutzpah." However, I am not holding my breath for either AHR or, for that matter, the U.S. Congress to measure human rights by one yard-stick.

JERUSALEM — A U.S.-based rights group says Israel violated laws of war in a series of airstrikes during an eight-day military operation last Nov...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Mogadishu court on Tuesday handed down one-year prison sentences to a woman who said she was raped by security forces and...

Reports issued by H.R.W. and other human rights groups are professional analyses of different countries. It is absolutely irresponsible and unethical to respond to such criticism with personal attacks on individual professionals affiliated with these organizations.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Somali government has charged a woman who has said she was raped by security forces, according to an international hum...