The court convicted Gueboudj that day for illegally entering Iraq and for membership in ISIS under Iraq’s Anti-Terrorism Law , and sentenced him to life in prison. . On September 23, the case’s presiding judge told Human Rights Watch that he..…

The Women’s March was poised to win a Human Rights award from the foundation this evening, but the group’s nomination was pulled; one of the foundation’s umbrella organizations, Critique of Anti-Semitism and Jewish Studies, wrote a letter condemning the Women’s March’s..…

Those targeted include peaceful political dissidents, journalists, online media workers, students, filmmakers, musicians and writers, as well as human rights defenders, including women’s rights activists, minority rights activists, environmental activists, trade unionists,..…

In 1999 the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification released a report, Memory of Silence, on human rights violations and mass killings during the Guatemalan government’s repression of leftist anti-government forces. ..…