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Human Rights Watch
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international human rights advocacy and research non-governmental organization
Human Rights Watch is an international organization that investigates and exposes human rights abuses around the world through research and advocacy. It matters because it works to hold governments and other powerful actors accountable for violations and to push for protections of basic human rights globally.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1978
- Location
- New York, United States
- Also known as
- HRW
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.428957.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 1426 7863
Wikidata facts
- Award
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Field of work
- humanitarian aid
- Country
- United States
- Official language
- English language
- Headquarters
- New York City
- Employees
- 450
- Revenue
- 77672177
- Legal form
- 501(c)(3) organization
- Official website
- www.hrw.org
- Image
- Hrw logo.svg
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- Commons category
- Human Rights Watch
- topic's main category
- Category:Human Rights Watch
- sponsor
- Open Society Foundations
- inception
- 1988-00-00
- director / manager
- Tirana Hassan
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- different from
- Human Rights Service
- replaces
- Helsinki Watch
- social media followers
- 10922
- short name
- HRW
- donations
- 68703693
- member count
- 4
- official observer status in organization
- International Organization for Migration
- total assets
- 219032950
- funder
- Open Society Foundations
- official donation page URL
- donate.hrw.org/page/112271/donate/1
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies
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Encyclopedic overview
Former executive Director Kenneth Roth speaking at the 44th Munich Security Conference 2008
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a nonprofit watchdog group headquartered in New York City.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Human Rights Watch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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