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Human Rights Watch
Website http://www.hrw.org/
Founded 1978
Headquarters 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York , New York
United States

Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit NGO dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. HRW produces reports on human rights violations as a means of focusing media and government attention on the issue.

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History

Human Rights Watch came from the group Helsinki Watch which publicly named governments (specifically the Soviet Union) and specific people within them who violated the Helsinki Accords and other human rights. In The 1980’s other watch groups were formed, Americas watch Asia watch and Africa watch. All of these combined to create Human Rights watch in 1988.


Founding

This subsection should provide some historical context for the founding of your group, explain the motivations behind it, and describe the steps taken and challenges faced by its founders to get the ball rolling.[1]

Current objectives and activities

Human Rights Watch will investigate a suspected human rights violation locally and produce a report. They are known for publicly shaming governments by exposing the situation to the media and pushing the issue to the eyes of the world media. Their goal is to expose and end violations. Human Rights Watch has also taken on the issue of health concerns such as Aids/ HIV. This section should discuss the group's current initiatives and tactics for influencing political outcomes (which may or may not be very different from its original goals and modus operandi).[2]

Organizational structure

The executive director of Human Rights Watch is Kenneth Roth since 1993. Before working for HRW he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Human rights watch consist of different watches for each region, Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They all have local researchers that generate reports. Each year HRW releases The World Report.

This section should describe the group's organizational structure, including its principal leadership positions and their current incumbents.[3]

Achievements

This section should recount the group's major achievements, including but not limited to legislative and/or legal victories.[4]

Public perception and controversies

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References

  1. ↑ John Q. Sample, Why and How Interest Group X Was Founded. City: Publisher, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html
  3. ↑ First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.
  4. ↑ "Major Success for Interest Group X," Anytown Daily News, January 1, 2015, p. A6.
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