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Joe Stork, a beloved mentor and friend to human rights activists across the Middle East and a treasured colleague whose career at Human Rights Watch spanned more than three decades, died ...

Sari Bashi, Program Director at Human Rights Watch, leads the organization’s research, supervising a staff of 270 people in 50 countries, working on 18 regional and thematic human rights areas.

As Human Rights Watch’s executive director Tirana Hassan said this morning in response to the election results: “Donald Trump has made no secret of his intent to violate the human rights of ...

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Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

By Ivy Choe, Staff Writer The 295 seats of the University Union Theatre were filled with students, faculty and advocates ...

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The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...

At the 79th Ordinary session of the Commission in May, Human Rights Watch raised with this Commission, the grave violations perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias ...