Cities Feature

  • Santa Barbara Voices for Justice Dinner on Sunday, November 13
    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.

In the News

  • Peter Bouckaert, HRW Emergencies Director and UCSB Alum, profiled in Santa Barbara Independent
    http://www.independent.com/news/2011/dec/22/peter-bouckaert/
    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).
    January 12, 2012
  • SB 9 Passes in the California State Senate
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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.
    June 11, 2011
  • Groundbreaking ILO Convention
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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.
    June 11, 2011