On March 7, Richard Dicker addressed over 50 attendees at at the Feminist Majority Foundation. He discussed accomplishments in Cote D’Ivoire and Kenya, the challenges currently facing accountability in the Middle East, and the increasingly positive climate for HRW and other NGOs who seek to bring the worst abusers in the world to account. Richard was an influential advocate in the movement to establish the permanent International Criminal Court and has contributed Human Rights Watch evidence to

Approximately 300 youth offenders have been sentenced to die in California’s prisons for crimes committed when they were teenagers, HRW said in a report released on March 1. The U.S. is the only country in the world where people who were under age 18 at the time of their crime serve sentences of life without parole. Nationally, more than 2,500 youth offenders are serving these sentences. The new report draws on six years of research, interviews, and correspondence with correctional officials and youth offenders serving life without parole.

On May 6, 500 gathered at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica to watch a star-studded cast bring to life the voices of individuals who risk their lives to speak out for freedom around the world. Human Rights Watch is grateful to all of the attendees, as well as the incredible cast: Caroline Aaron, Lisa Edelstein, Jacqueline Emerson, Greg Germann, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anna Khaja, Dayo Okeniyi, Missi Pyle, Peter Riegert, Julian Sands, Arnold Vosloo, and Reno Wilson. Human Rights Watch also thanks the amazingly talented music performers who participated: Aloe Blacc and Isobel Campbell.