• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Jun 7, 2012

    Filmmaker Alison Klayman captures artist Ai Weiwei's forthright and unequivocal stance against China's oppression in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. You can catch the documentary at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. Amy Costello reports.

  • Azerbaijan: Media Freedoms in Grave Danger
    May 2, 2012
    Journalists and free-speech advocates voice their alarm at the Azerbaijan government's crackdown in free expression and the European Broadcasting Union's reluctance to speak out publicly against it ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
  • Burma Releases Political Prisoners
    Jan 20, 2012
    Burma's government has finally heeded international calls to release political prisoners. Photographer James Mackay was at the Rangoon airport on January 13 to document the homecoming of some of the country's most prominent activists. Human Rights Watch's Elaine Pearson reports.
  • Voices from Tahrir I: Bread, Freedom and Dignity
    Jan 20, 2012

    In the first half of the show, host Heba Morayef brings listeners back to the early days of demonstrations in Tahrir Square. Activists who were there tell how and when they realized they were participating in a revolution that would bring down a president.

  • Iraq: Journalists Under Threat
    Sep 16, 2011

    A popular Iraqi radio journalist was gunned down in his home in Baghdad. A newspaper editor, Asos Hardi, was also attacked in Iraq's Kurdish region. Hardi and HRW's Samer Muscati talk about increasing risks to journalists and press freedom in Iraq.

  • 2010 in Photos
    Jan 21, 2011
  • China's Contradictions
    Dec 10, 2010
  • Hollman Morris
    Jul 14, 2010
    In 2007, Human Rights Watch honored Colombian journalist Hollman Morris as one of its "Human rights defenders of the year." Now, according to the Washington Post, the US government has denied Morris a visa to attend Harvard University on a Nieman fellowship.
  • Colombia: Deadly Threats
    Feb 2, 2010
    The Colombian government says that all paramilitary groups were demobilized between 2003 and 2006, and that they no longer exist. But Human Rights Watch has found that successors to the paramilitaries continue their criminal activities an abuses.
  • Umida Ahmedova: Photographer Facing Trial
    Jan 27, 2010
    In 2007, Uzbek photographer and videographer Umida Ahmedova published a compilation of over 100 photographs entitled “Women and Men: From Dawn till Dusk.” Ahmedova is currently facing slander and insult charges brought against her, in part, for publication of these photographs, eleven of which are featured in this slideshow.