Peter Bouckaert, HRW Emergencies Director and UCSB Alum, profiled in Santa Barbara Independent
January 3, 2012
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UCSB’s Distinguished Alumni Award winner for 2012 By Liane Martindale Thursday, December 22, 2011 UCSB’s Distinguished Alumni Award winner for 2012, Peter Bouckaert, and a Moroccan prince third in line to the throne, Prince Moulay Hicham, stopped in Santa Barbara to discuss the Arab Spring and their work for the watchdog organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Santa Barbara Voices for Justice Dinner on Sunday, November 13
June 20, 2011
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On November 13, 350 attended the Voices for Justice Dinner at the Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara. Human Rights Watch presented its highest honor to Sister Consuelo Morales from Mexico and Sussan Tahmasebi from Iran. The Dinner raised $400,000, and these funds will enable Human Rights Watch to deepen our research and expand our advocacy in the 90 countries we cover.
  • Women in Tahrir Square, Cairo, protest against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on February 1, 2011. Mubarak resigned on February 11.
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SB 9 Passes in the California State Senate
June 20, 2011
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SB 9, the Fair Sentencing for Youth Act, passed with 21 aye votes in the California Senate last week. The bill ensures that youth sentenced to life in prison without parole will have their cases reviewed and the possibility of release. The bill now moves to the Assembly.
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Groundbreaking ILO Convention
June 17, 2011
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On June 16, 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) voted to adopt a landmark treaty extending key labor protections to domestic workers. The accomplishment will protect millions of people who have been without guarantees of their basic rights. Governments, trade unions, and employers' organizations that make up the ILO overwhelmingly voted to adopt the ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, which establishes the first global standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women and girls.
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  • Indonesian women watch a vacuuming demonstration at a training center in Jakarta before migrating to Saudi Arabia as domestic workers.

    © 2006 Susan Meiselas
Youth Producing Change: Call for Submissions:
Human Rights Watch and Adobe Youth Voices Seek Films Made by Young People
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October 29, 2009
Human Rights Watch and Adobe Youth Voices Seek Films Made by Young People
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The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices seeks youth-produced film, video and animated works on human rights issues made by youth ages 19 and under for its third annual YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program.

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Human Rights Watch galardona a cuatro activistas
Los activistas trabajan para poner fin a los abusos en Birmania, Congo, Etiopía y Rusia
October 8, 2009
Los activistas trabajan para poner fin a los abusos en Birmania, Congo, Etiopía y Rusia

(Nueva York) - Cuatro valientes e incansables defensores de los derechos humanos - de Birmania, la República Democrática del Congo, Etiopía y Rusia - han sido galardonados con el prestigioso Premio Alison Des Forges al Activismo Extraordinario, señaló hoy Human Rights Watch.

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Human Rights rend hommage à quatre défenseurs des droits humains
Les quatre lauréats du prix « Alison Des Forges Defender Award » ont œuvré pour la cessation des exactions en Birmanie, en RD Congo, en Éthiopie et en Russie
October 7, 2009
Les quatre lauréats du prix « Alison Des Forges Defender Award » ont œuvré pour la cessation des exactions en Birmanie, en RD Congo, en Éthiopie et en Russie

(New York, le 7 octobre 2009) - Quatre courageux et infatigables défenseurs des droits humains originaires de la Birmanie, de la République démocratique du Congo, de l'Éthiopie et la Russie ont été sélectionnés pour recevoir le prix Alison Des Forges Defender Award for Extraordinary Activism, une prestigieuse distinction qui récompense l'activisme extraordinaire de la défunte mi

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ビルマ、コンゴ、エチオピア、ロシアの勇敢な人権活動家たちが受賞
October 7, 2009
ビルマ、コンゴ、エチオピア、ロシアの勇敢な人権活動家たちが受賞
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Human Rights Watch Honors Top Rights Defenders
Defenders Work to End Abuses in Burma, Congo, Ethiopia, and Russia
October 7, 2009
Defenders Work to End Abuses in Burma, Congo, Ethiopia, and Russia

(New York) - Four courageous and tireless advocates of human rights - from Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Russia - have been awarded the prestigious Alison Des Forges Defender Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today.

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