Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

By Brendan Hoffman and Evelina Riabenko Photographs and Video by Brendan Hoffman The human costs ... But Ukraine’s environment is also being devastated. The war may end, but damage from ...

Each year, hundreds of human rights defenders are killed for ... rivers and their wildlife and their watersheds from environmental damage. But two companies involved filed a strategic lawsuit ...

There are an estimated 1 billion domesticated dogs in the world. Most are owned animals—pets, companions or working animals ...

Our beloved pet dogs have a far greater, more insidious and more concerning effect on wildlife and the environment than we would like to be the case. In our new research, we lay out the damage pet ...