Russia Today
| Apr 24, 2013
Drones and other machines capable of targeting and killing humans autonomously are too close to becoming reality, Human Rights Watch warns. The group has launched a global Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to press for an international ban on such ma...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 16, 2013
Inside Story examines the ongoing issues facing a fragile peace in Somalia as rebels attack at the heart of the government machine. Host Hazem Sika is joined by guests: Augustine Mahiga, the United Nations special representative for Somalia, and h...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Apr 11, 2013
Human Rights Watch, a US-based rights group, today accused Syria of war crimes by indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate air strikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since last summer. These include the targeting of crowds of peop...
Voice of America
| Apr 1, 2013
Burma is being urged to hold accountable those responsible for sectarian violence in March, mainly targeted at Muslims, that left at least 43 people dead, dozens injured, and thousands homeless. The attacks in the central Burmese town of Meikhtila...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 12, 2013
Monday marked the deadliest day for US troops this year in Afghanistan after seven soldiers perished in two separate incidents. Five US service members were killed in a helicopter crash outside Kandahar city. Hours earlier, two US soldiers were sh...
Human Rights Watch
| Feb 27, 2013
Religious minorities including Christians and Shia Muslims are the targets of a rising tide of violence and intolerance in Indonesia, Human Rights Watch warns. The group accuses the government of failing to protect minorities and calls for a "zero...
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Mosaic
| Feb 25, 2013
Human Rights Watch strongly criticized a new protest law beingconsidered by the Shura Council, Egypt's temporary legislative body.It would ban protesters from holding demonstrations near government buildings and allow the police to disperse protes...
NTDTV
| Feb 21, 2013
Mexican security forces were behind the abduction and murder of scores of people during Felipe Calderon's administration, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The report cites 149 cases of "enforced disappearances" and labels Calderon's a...
LinkAsia
| Feb 1, 2013
In the latest of a string of successful prosecutions under Thailand's strict 'lese majeste' law, journalist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for offending the monarchy. LinkAsia speaks with Thai political journalist ...
Euronews
| Jan 31, 2013
Authoritarianism in Russia is now at its worst since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Human Rights Watch warns. The group says that attacks on political freedoms have soared since Vladimir Putin started a new term last year, with pressure on crit...
— Feb 1 at 07:52 am
...to civil society protections and sexual violence against women, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. In its 665-page World Report 2013, it also fo...
— Jan 11, 2012 at 04:25 pm
Slideshow NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A draft amnesty law approved by Yemeni legislators is tantamount to a license to kill for the country's embatt...
— Mar 20, 2012 at 12:50 pm
...— Human Rights Watch, one of the world's largest human rights groups, on Monday issued criticizing what it called "widespread violations" of hum...
— Mar 30, 2012 at 12:08 pm
...were denied by Dr. Ali who spoke to the VOA about the report by Human Rights Watch. "Security in regions that Ethiopian and TFG forces have capt...
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and it has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto, and Washington.
As of June 2011, the organization’s annual expenses totaled $50.6 million.
The George Soros Open Society Foundation is the primary donor of the Human Rights Watch, contributing $100 million of $128 million of contributions and grants received by the HRW in the 2011 financial year. The $100 million contribution from the Open Society Foundation will be paid out over ten years in $10 million annual installments.
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