The Latest Breaking News from HRW

The US will send the weapons to Ukraine – even as human rights groups oppose their use

Israel’s army says five of its officers did not obey standard procedures, but none crossed the ‘criminal threshold’.

Once we get the release of these numbers out of the way at noon (ET), attention should immediately turn back to weather forecasts.

Villagers increasingly caught up in army crackdown on Islamist militants, with both sides accused of mass killings of civilians

President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered top military commanders on Friday to strengthen Ukraine's northern military sector following the arrival of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group fighters in Belarus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow would emerge from the aftermath of the Wagner mercenary group’s aborted…

The group says that M23’s killings and rapes in eastern DRC are bolstered by the military support of Rwandan officials.

A leading rights group says the World Bank and Jordan are using a “flawed” algorithm to calculate aid for the kingdom, excludes some people who are impoverished, hungry or otherwise struggling

Human Rights Watch accuses government-backed militias, officials of committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’.

As Beijing boosts its diplomatic clout, analysts say it wants to “remould” and even supplant existing institutions.