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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Organizations United States

Description

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world. It employs roughly 500 people of more than 70 nationalities, including country experts, lawyers and journalists, who work to protect people at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime to refugees and children in need. The organization directs its advocacy at governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce laws and policies, and it refuses government funding to preserve its independence.

Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, originally investigating rights abuses in countries that had signed the Helsinki Accords, and its work has since expanded to five continents. Researchers work in the field in around a hundred countries, gathering facts that document abuses. The findings are shared through news media and social channels, and used to press governments, the United Nations, armed groups and corporations to change policy, enforce laws and deliver justice. Research methods include in-person interviews, satellite imagery and analysis of large datasets.

Human Rights Watch describes itself as a group of affiliated charities, including a United States nonprofit corporation, operating together under the Human Rights Watch name. It maintains offices in cities including New York, Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC and Zurich.

Address

New York
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, NY 10118-3299 USA

Beirut
PO Box 11-4399 Riad El Solh, Beirut

Berlin
Neue Promenade 5, 10178 Berlin, Germany

Johannesburg
1st fl, Wilds View, Isle of Houghton, Boundary Road (at Carse O'Gowrie), Parktown, 2198 South Africa

Sydney
GPO Box 4278, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia

Sweden
c/o Norrsken House Birger Jarlsgatan 57, Box 78, 113 56 Stockholm

Tokyo
MBE704 Akasaka Subaru Bldg. 1F, 5-5-9 Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo Japan 107-0052

Toronto
1 Eglinton Avenue East; Suite 617, Toronto, ON M4P 3A1

London media office
Audrey House, 16 -20 Ely Place, London, England, EC1N 6SN

Brussels office
Square de Meeûs 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Contact

General Contact form: https://www.hrw.org/contact-us
Press email Press desk
Office email Sydney office
Office email Beirut office
Office email Brussels office
Office email Berlin office
Office email São Paulo office
Office email Geneva office
Office email Washington DC office
Office email San Francisco office
Office email Nairobi office
Office email Los Angeles office
Office email Amsterdam office
Office email Oslo office
Office email Paris office
Office email Stockholm office
Office email Toronto office
Office email Zurich office
General phone New York head office: +1-212-290-4700
Press phone Press desk: +1-212-216-1832
Office phone Beirut office: +961-1-217670
Office phone Berlin office: +49-30-7001465-80
Press phone Berlin press office: +493025930613
Office phone Brussels office: +32-2-732-2009
Office phone Chicago office: +1 312 828 9100
Office phone Johannesburg office: +27 11 062 2850
Office phone Silicon Valley office: +1 650 656-8314
Office phone Sydney office: +61 2 8925 5700
Press phone Paris press office: +33 1 43 59 58 54
Office phone Washington DC office: +1-202-612-4321
Press phone London press office: +44 20 7618 4700
Donations phone Donations enquiries: +1 212 377 9479
Press phone Brussels press desk: +32-2-737-14-96
Office phone Paris office: +33-1-43-59-55-35

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Details

Country: United States
Website language: English

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