China is continuing its Internet crackdown on pornography in what it claims is an effort to protect youth from vulgarity while maintaining it has nothing to do with quieting political dissent. read more...

Human Rights Watch continues to be critical of Singapore and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Singapore's constitution guarantees freedom of assembly and expression, but "opposition politicians and their supporters are at constant risk of prison and substantial fi...

President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the.....

Mark Silverberg I was asked recently to explain why Israel was “ghettoizing” the Palestinians by constructing a security barrier in areas that have served as transit points for terrorists entering the country. The questioner noted that, as a Jew, I should be more sensitive to the concept...

It looks like I was right about the Georgia-Russia War, while John McCain, Joe Biden and Barack Obama got it wrong. I hope this doesn't represent the start of a pattern for Obama/Biden in terms of being on the wrong side of history. Just as I suspected, reports are now providing confirmation and con...

By Lauren Wissot [ Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North premieres today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008. Click here for screening information.] Beginning with home movie footage of an Independence Day parade in Bris...

By Lauren Wissot [ To See If I'm Smiling premieres today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008. Click here for screening information.] To See If I’m Smiling, Tamar Yarom’s heartbreaking doc about women soldiers in the Occupied Te...

Sometime in the next few weeks, a special envoy of President Bush plans to meet with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whose government sheltered Osama bin Laden and pursued a scorched-earth policy in southern Sudan that resulted in more than 2 million deaths....

As Human Rights Watch takes on the Turkish government, the nation’s queer citizens have been taking to the street. About 100 activists marched in Turkey’s first ever gay pride last Saturday, again proving that we gays can flourish in almost any political climate. So versatile! But, of co...

The unprecedented move was an effort by President �lvaro Uribe to take a hard line against warlords and defuse a scandal that has tied them to senior officials....