News: 2025 Edition of HRW's World Report

The latest edition of Human Rights Watch's annual human rights survey, World Report 2025: Events of 2024, was launched yesterday (16 Jan. 2024). It provides a summary of the human rights situations in over 100 countries and territories around the world. The press release is here; the keynote essay is entitled "2024: A Year of Reckoning."

The release of the report was accompanied by an extensive series of news releases highlighting issues in specific countries and regions; see, e.g., Australia: Reversals in Respect for Children’s Rights - Violations Against Asylum Seekers Persist, EU: Migration Policies Fuel Abuses Across Borders, Venezuela: Rights Crisis Deepens as Maduro is Sworn in - Widespread Repression, Unaddressed Humanitarian Emergency, among others.

Readers can download the entire report or browse by individual country on the companion web site. in addition, abridged versions are offered in multiple languages via the microsite. Previous editions of the World Report can be found here.