About the Paris office
About the Paris office
After setting up offices in London, Geneva, Brussels and Berlin, Human Rights Watch created an office in Paris in October 2007 to increase the scope of its actions within the European Union. This development demonstrates the organization’s determination to become more international as it deals with the growing complexity of human rights in a multi-polar world.
The Paris office enables Human Rights Watch to act so that French policy towards human rights protection becomes as active as possible, in France as well as internationally. Human Rights Watch encourages France to play a leading role in Europe and the world in this area. As the United States' credibility as promoter of human rights has faltered and as other major countries like China and Russia are severely criticized in this area, it is essential for the EU to assume a real leadership in the protection of human rights around the world.
Bénédicte Jeannerod, France Director
Bénédicte Jeannerod is France Director at Human Rights Watch. Prior to becoming the director of Human Rights Watch's Paris office in November 2015, she worked for seven years for UNICEF in France, as Director of Advocacy and Communications. Previously, she was Deputy Director of Communications at Médecins sans Frontières-France (2004 to 2007). Twitter @BenJeannerod
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Contact information
Human Rights Watch Paris
Tel: 01.43.59.55.35
Fax: 01.43.59.55.22
Email: paris@hrw.org