Based in Johannesburg, Cameron Jacobs is the South Africa Director of Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Cameron was the head of the research programme of the South African Human Rights Commission, where he oversaw and managed the organization’s mission to promote, protect, monitor, and assess the rights in South Africa’s Bill of Rights. Cameron has spent his entire career involved in the documentation, analysis, and furtherance of human rights in South Africa, and has nearly a decade’s worth of publications concerning the history and development of labor, land tenure, and human rights in South Africa. He possesses an honours degree in sociology and received his Master of Philosophy in Public Policy from the University of Cape Town in 2006. He is currently completing his law studies at the University of South Africa. In 2008, he authored and published a book on socio-historical research and land tenure in South Africa.