To combat authoritarian interventions within Democratic societies, democracies must agree on a shared legal definition of ...

(Beirut) – Iranian authorities have continued their brutal, targeted repression even though the new Iranian president has promised change, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. The ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Joshua Kurlantzick is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Annabel ...

An ADHRB report exposes how Gulf states use INTERPOL and the Arab Interior Ministers' Council to target dissidents abroad and calls for reforms to protect free expression. The Gulf Cooperation Council ...

Venezuela is entering one of its most repressive periods in years, rights monitors say, as President Nicolás Maduro faces mounting isolation and an expanding US military presence in the Caribbean.

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...