HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. HRW.org is the destination on the web for the latest news and information about human rights around the world. What others say about Human Rights Watch: "...There's more hard-hitting journalism going on in its offices than in most of the bigger newsrooms in this country." -- The Village Voice "At the heart of the group’s effectiveness: meticulous field research, which creates an incontrovertible record of human-rights crimes, coupled with hardheaded advocacy...this is where the real investigative journalism of our times is getting done. For example, Human Rights Watch’s many reports on the war in West Africa helped bring about the prosecution of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor by a United Nations special court this year—sending a wake-up call to dictators everywhere. With Radovan Karadzic, the alleged Bosnian Serb genocidaire, now awaiting trial in The Hague, and Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, facing charges, tyrants worldwide, such as Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, had better look out. Ken Roth is on the watch." -- Brad Pitt, Vanity Fair