POST /api/hrw/news/search
Price: 20 credits
Search Human Rights Watch news by keyword, country, topic, tag, news type and year, newest first
Values inside one filter are combined with OR and different filters with AND. Results whose kind is news open in hrw/news with the full text, countries, topics and authors.
access-token string requiredtimeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)keyword string nullable — Free-text search over news items (examples: "sudan", "death penalty"; minLength: 1)countries array nullable — Keep news tagged with any of these regions or countries (one of: "Africa", "African Union", "Angola", "Benin", "Botswana", "Burkina Faso", "Burundi", "Cameroon", "Cape Verde", "Central African Republic", "Chad", "Comoros", "Congo (Brazzaville)", "Côte d'Ivoire", "Democratic Republic of Congo", "Djibouti", "Equatorial Guinea", "Eritrea", "Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)", "Ethiopia", "Gabon", "Gambia", "Ghana", "Guinea", "Guinea-Bissau", "Kenya", "Lesotho", "Liberia", "Madagascar", "Malawi", "Mali", "Mauritius", "Mozambique", "Namibia", "Niger", "Nigeria", "Rwanda", "Senegal", "Seychelles", "Sierra Leone", "Somalia", "South Africa", "South Sudan", "Sudan", "Tanzania", "Togo", "Uganda", "Zambia", "Zimbabwe", "Americas", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Argentina", "Bahamas", "Barbados", "Belize", "Bolivia", "Brazil", "Canada", "Chile", "Colombia", "Costa Rica", "Cuba", "Dominican Republic", "Ecuador", "El Salvador", "Falklands/Malvinas", "Grenada", "Guatemala", "Guyana", "Haiti", "Honduras", "Jamaica", "Mexico", "Nicaragua", "Panama", "Paraguay", "Peru", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "Suriname", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Uruguay", "Venezuela", "Asia", "Afghanistan", "Australia", "Bangladesh", "Bhutan", "Brunei", "Cambodia", "China and Tibet", "Cook Islands", "Federated States of Micronesia", "Fiji", "India", "Indonesia", "Japan", "Kiribati", "Laos", "Malaysia", "Maldives", "Marshall Islands", "Mongolia", "Myanmar (Burma)", "Nauru", "Nepal", "New Zealand", "Niue", "North Korea", "Pakistan", "Palau", "Papua New Guinea", "Philippines", "Samoa", "Singapore", "Solomon Islands", "South Korea", "Sri Lanka", "Taiwan", "Thailand", "Timor-Leste", "Tonga", "Tuvalu", "Vanuatu", "Vietnam", "Europe/Central Asia", "Albania", "Andorra", "Armenia", "Austria", "Azerbaijan", "Belarus", "Belgium", "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Bulgaria", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czech Republic", "Denmark", "Estonia", "European Union", "Finland", "France", "Georgia", "Germany", "Greece", "Holy See", "Hungary", "Iceland", "Ireland", "Italy", "Kazakhstan", "Kyrgyzstan", "Latvia", "Liechtenstein", "Lithuania", "Macedonia", "Malta", "Moldova", "Monaco", "Montenegro", "Netherlands", "Norway", "Poland", "Portugal", "Romania", "Russia", "San Marino", "Serbia/Kosovo", "Slovak Republic", "Slovenia", "Spain", "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Tajikistan", "Türkiye", "Turkmenistan", "Ukraine", "United Kingdom", "Uzbekistan", "Global", "Middle East/North Africa", "Algeria", "Bahrain", "Egypt", "Iran", "Iraq", "Israel/Palestine", "Jordan", "Kuwait", "Lebanon", "Libya", "Mauritania", "Morocco/Western Sahara", "Oman", "Qatar", "Saudi Arabia", "Syria", "Tunisia", "United Arab Emirates", "Yemen", "United States", "Criminal Justice", "Immigrants' Rights and Border Policy", "National Security", "US Foreign Policy", "Democracy", "Economic Justice", "Racial Justice")topics array nullable — Keep news tagged with any of these topics (one of: "Arms", "Cluster Munitions", "Killer Robots", "Landmines", "Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas", "Incendiary Weapons", "Children's Rights", "Education", "Attacks on Education", "Children Separated from Families", "Children and Armed Conflict", "Child Labor", "Youth Justice", "Migrant and Refugee Children", "Intersex Children", "Crisis and Conflict", "Disability Rights", "Shackling", "Economic Justice and Rights", "Corporate Accountability", "Oil, Mining, and Natural Resources", "Poverty and Inequality", "World Bank, IMF", "Environment and Human Rights", "Climate Change", "Deforestation", "Fossil Fuels", "Free Speech", "Press Freedom", "Religious Freedom", "Health", "Sexual and Reproductive Health", "Detention Centers", "Disasters and Displaced Populations", "Environment and Health", "Health Care Access", "HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis", "Palliative Care", "Attacks on Health", "LGBT Rights", "Refugees and Migrants", "Asylum Seekers", "Internally Displaced People", "Exploitation, Forced Labor & Trafficking", "Migrants", "Rights of Older People", "International Justice", "Charles Taylor", "International Criminal Court", "Joseph Kony - Lord's Resistance Army", "Peace and Justice", "Bosco Ntaganda", "Universal Jurisdiction", "Sport and Human Rights", "Technology and Rights", "Digital Investigations Lab", "Terrorism / Counterterrorism", "CIA Activities", "Detention without Trial", "Edward Snowden", "Guantanamo", "Guantanamo - Military Commissions", "Targeted Killings and Drones", "Torture", "United Nations", "Human Rights Council", "Women's Rights", "Forced Marriage", "Gender Based Violence", "Domestic Workers", "Gender Equality", "Reproductive Rights", "Sexual Violence", "Labor Rights", "Sex Work", "Women and Armed Conflict", "Women's Health")tags array nullable — Keep news tagged with any of these campaign tags (one of: "#MeToo", "'Remain in Mexico'", "2026 FIFA Men's World Cup", "Azerbaijan Natural Resources and Human Rights", "Beijing Winter Olympics 2022", "Boko Haram", "Brexit", "Chechnya", "China's Global Influence", "Climate Talks 2017", "COP27 - Climate Change Conference", "COP28 - Climate Change Conference", "COP29 - Climate Change Conference", "COP30 - Climate Change Conference", "Coronavirus", "Crimes Against Humanity Treaty", "Crisis in the Middle East", "Daily Brief", "Disappearances in Yemen", "Drugs and Human Rights", "Duterte", "Education for Syrian Refugee Children", "Egypt Crackdown on Civil Society", "Encryption", "Ethiopian Protests", "Europe: Refugees & Migrants' Rights", "Ferguson", "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022", "Free Education for all Children", "Gender-based Violence at Work", "German Election", "Global Supply Chains", "Guinea's 2009 Stadium Massacre Trial", "Hissène Habré", "Hong Kong", "Honor Killings", "Iraq War 20 Years Later", "ISIS", "Kafala (Visa Sponsorship) System", "Kashmir", "Land Rights", "Liu Xiaobo", "Los Angeles Film Club", "Mass Surveillance in China", "Mediterranean Crisis", "Mexico: Lessons from a Human Rights Catastrophe", "Middle East Uprising", "Nagorno-Karabakh", "Philippines' 'War on Drugs'", "Rabaa Massacre", "Refugee Summits", "Reparations in the United States", "Right to Social Security", "Rights of Persons with Albinism", "Rohingya", "Russia-Ukraine War", "The Trial of Hissène Habré", "Tigray Conflict", "Transnational Repression", "Trump Administration and Human Rights", "Uganda Elections 2016", "US: Trump Presidential Transition", "Uyghurs", "World Cup 2018", "World Humanitarian Summit", "World Report 2024 News Releases", "World Report 2025 News Releases", "World Report 2026 News Releases", "Xenophobia", "Yahya Jammeh")news_types array nullable — Keep news of any of these types (one of: "Amicus Briefing", "Background Briefing", "Commentary", "Defenders", "Dispatches", "Fact Sheet", "Impact", "Interview", "Journal Article", "Letter", "News Release", "Q & A", "Report", "Statement", "Submission", "UPR", "Witness")year integer nullable — Keep news published in this year (examples: 2025; min: 1978; max: 2100)count integer required — Max number of news items to return (min: 1; max: 1000)@type string (default: "HrwCard")url string requiredkind string nullablesubtitle string nullabledescription string nullablelabel string nullablepublished_date string nullableimage string nullablelanguage string nullable422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)X-Request-ID — Unique request identifierX-Execution-Time — Execution time in secondsX-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.