Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978 in New York (as Helsinki Watch) with the mission of using public demonstrations and other forms of “naming and shaming” to free prisoners ...

December 10 is International Human Rights Day — marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. In accepting this ...

Kenneth Roth, the longtime head of Human Rights Watch, published a powerful piece on China coinciding with President Hu’s recent visit to the U.S. It was an eloquent defense of ...

RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL–The term “irony” does not do justice to the contrast between the Palestinian terror attacks that killed three Americans in Gaza Wednesday, and the hype surrounding the latest ...

Officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have announced that once the war with Iraq is over, Western troops — particularly the Americans — would receive a letter of thanks ...