Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization. Its activities include research and advocacy on human rights. The headquarters of the organization is in New York City.
Focus of the organization
- Arms trafficking
- Land mines
- Abortion rights
- Freedom of religion
- Rights of AIDS patients
- Safety of civilians in war; opposes use of cluster bombs
- Child labor
- Child soldiers
- Child prostitution
- Street children
- Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Torture
- Extrajudicial killings and abductions
- Legal cases against human rights abusers
- Trafficking in women and girls
- Abolition of capital punishment worldwide
Human Rights Watch Media
Former executive Director Kenneth Roth speaking at the 44th Munich Security Conference 2008
Nabeel Rajab helping an old woman after Bahraini police attacked a peaceful protest in August 2010
Kenneth Roth and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, February 2, 2012
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