North Korean officials commit sexual violence with little concern for the consequences. The government fails to investigate and prosecute complaints, or to provide protection and services to victims, and even asserts that the country is implausibly free of sexism or sexual violence.

Widespread sexual violence marred Kenya’s 2017 elections. The Kenyan government should urgently take steps to protect women and girls, as well as men and boys, from sexual violence.

Burmese security forces have committed widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine State.

Rape survivors in India face significant barriers to obtaining justice and critical support services. Legal and other reforms adopted since the gang rape and murder of a student, Jyoti Singh Pandey, in Delhi in December 2012 have not been fully realized.

Armed groups are using rape in a brutal, calculated way to punish and terrorize women and girls. Every day, survivors live with the devastating aftermath of rape, and the knowledge that their attackers are walking free, perhaps holding positions of power, and to date facing no consequences whatsoever.

Meet the investigators behind Human Rights Watch's work. "These people live with fear all their lives. They have no place to go. I have to tell their story."

Countries around the world should ban the practice of conducting forced anal examinations on men and transgender women accused of consensual same-sex conduct.

Thousands of United States service members, who lost their military careers after reporting a sexual assault, live with stigmatizing discharge papers.

Highlights from the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré's trial that is taking place in Senegal.