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Thursday, December 9, 2021
A Virtual Evening with Human Rights Watch
Chicago

7:00PM CST SHORT VIRTUAL PROGRAM
7:30PM CST LIVE DISCUSSION: Chicago Committee Co-Chair Sheila Roche in Conversation with Women’s Rights Division Executive Director Macarena Sáez

Join us on the eve of Human Rights Day for a virtual Voices for Justice evening featuring an interview between Human Rights Watch Chief Programs Officer Tirana Hassan and CNN's Lisa Ling, and a live conversation between Human Rights Watch Women’s Rights Executive Director Macarena Sáez and Chicago Committee Co-Chair Sheila Roche.

The evening features a special performance by musician and human rights advocate Mai Khôi.

For more information contact ChicagoRSVP@hrw.org.

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News

  • FOCUS: Child Marriage

    Every year 14 million girls are married worldwide. One in seven girls in the developing world is married before her 15th birthday – some as young as eight or nine. In 2010, over 67 million women ages 20-24 had been married as girls, and, if the trend continues, 142 million will be married by 2020. Human Rights Watch is one of the founding members of global movement Girls Not Brides and has produced new research and advocacy campaigns to expose and change child marriage practices in South Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan.

  • Emergencies and Crisis Missions Researcher Seminar

    Last month, we welcomed Anya Neistat and Ole Solvang to Chicago for a special Emergencies Missions and Crisis Reporting Researcher Seminar. Over four hours, Chicago Committee members and friends learned how to apply HRW's mandate to current events, designed their own research projects, and participated in an interactive scenario of what a day in the life of a researcher looks like.