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About Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and carefully review all donations to ensure that they are consistent with our policies, mission, and values. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.
Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978 as “Helsinki Watch,” when we began investigating rights abuses in countries that signed the Helsinki Accords, most notably those behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, our work has expanded to five continents. We investigated massacres and even genocides, along with government take-overs of media and the baseless arrests of activists and political opposition figures. At the same time, we expanded our work to address abuses against those likely to face discrimination, including women, LGBT people, and people with disabilities. When families victimized by war crimes found no justice at home, we championed international justice and international courts. While we rely on in-person interviews, our research methods have also changed with the times, and today we use satellite imagery to track the destruction of villages and city blocks, and we mine big data for patterns in arrest rates or the deportation of immigrants. Everything we do circles back to our commitment to justice, dignity, compassion, and equality.
Since the election of the late John Pombe Magufuli as president in October 2015, the authorities in Tanzania have restricted basic rights through repressive laws and decrees. Critical journalists, opposition politicians, and outspoken activists have faced threats, arbitrary detention, and harassing criminal charges. Authorities have also violated the rights of LGBT people and their advocates. While the government expanded access to free secondary education, it reinforced a discriminatory ban on pregnant students. It stalled legal reforms to increase the age of marriage to 18 for boys and girls. Elections in 2020 were marred by widespread repression. Police arbitrarily arrested and detained scores of opposition leaders and supporters, security forces killed at least four in Zanzibar, and authorities suspended television stations and news outlets, and blocked social media.
What We Do
Investigate: Our researchers work in the field in 100 some countries, uncovering facts that create an undeniable record of human rights abuses.
Expose: We tell the stories of what we found, sharing them with millions of social media and online followers each day. News media often report on our investigations, furthering our reach.
Change: We meet with governments, the United Nations, rebel groups, corporations, and others to see that policy is changed, laws are enforced, and justice is served.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Location and Contact Information
Los Angeles
- Address: 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 608
- Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA
- Tel: +1-310-477-5540
- Fax: +1-310-477-4622
- Contact Los Angeles Office
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) useful links
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- Human Rights Watch (HRW) job vacancies – career page: https://careers.hrw.org/
