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Human Rights Watch is a leading international organisation dedicated to defending and promoting human rights around the world. Human Rights Watch researchers work to uncover human rights violations by investigating sites of abuse and speaking first-hand with witnesses and authorities. By exposing these abuses and shining a spotlight where they occur, Human Rights Watch's work gives a voice to victims, generates intense international pressure on governments for action and raises the cost to perpetrators of committing abuses. Human Rights Watch pursues perpetrators of abuses until they are brought to justice.

The London Eye lit blue for Human Rights Day 2018. ©

MEET THE LONDON TEAM

UK Advocacy and Media
The UK advocacy and communications team are responsible for conducting targeted advocacy towards the UK government and parliamentarians. They are also in charge of the organisation’s outreach to the UK media. If you are a member of the press with a media query, please contact HRW Press at hrwpress@hrw.org.

Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director
Anthony Gale, Senior Media Officer

Development & Outreach
The Development & Outreach team is the key contact for the London Committee. The team is responsible for organising fundraising and outreach events. They are the focal point for liaising with supporters, the London Committee and the Board of Directors.

James Bowers, UK Director
Jessica Jones, UK Senior Manager
Tamanna Abdi, UK Coordinator

Staff members based in London

Elaine Pearson, Asia Director
Sam Dubberley, Managing Director, Technology, Rights and Investigations
Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division
Bryony Lau, Deputy Director, Asia Division
Meenakshi Ganguly, Deputy Director, Asia Division
Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor
Anna Bacciarelli, Senior Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Technology, Rights and Investigations
Bridget Sleap, Senior Researcher, Rights of Older People
Fereshta Abbasi, Researcher, Asia Division
Yalkun Uluyol, China Researcher, Asia Division
Miriam Rodero, Grant Writer, Development and Outreach
Rhys McGhee, Acting Onboarding Manager, Human Resources
Nishita Anand, Training and Support Associate, Fundraising Systems and Data Analytics

OUR LONDON COMMITTEE

The London Committee is comprised of active, long term supporters of Human Rights Watch living in and around London. It forms part of the Human Rights Watch Council, an international network of Committees and Ambassadors who advance the efforts of Human Rights Watch by organising conferences, briefings and other events, engaging in targeted advocacy initiatives, and assisting in important development and outreach programs.

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News

August 22, 2018

THE WORKER'S CUP Film Screening

Human Rights Watch launched two editions of The Worker's Cup film screening in the United Kingdom: hosted at HOME Cinema in Manchester on Wednesday 20 June 2018 and at Norton Rose Fulbright in London on Thursday 12 July 2018.

Previously screened at our 2018 Human Rights Watch London Film Festival, this film follows one group of men from among the 1.6 million migrant workers preparing for the world's largest sporting event, the World Cup. With unprecedented access to FIFA's 2022 World Cup stadium controversial construction sites and labour camps in Qatar, the men enthusiastically train to compete in a football tournament of their own: The Workers Cup. Exposing long work hours for scant salaries, limited freedom of movement, and harsh living conditions in isolated labour camps, this documentary explores universal themes of ambition, aspiration, sport, and masculinity, as the protagonists wrangle hope, meaning, and opportunity out of their extremely precarious circumstances. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2017

Our panels consisted of Rosie Garthwaite, Producer of The Workers Cup, Nooruddean Choudry, Creative Director and Senior Writer at Joe.co.uk, Mark Lobel, Freelance Political and News Correspondent, BBC News and Stephanie Hancock, Senior Media Officer at Human Rights Watch.
August 22, 2018

London Board Reception

ON THE MOVE: CAN HUMAN RIGHTS ADDRESS THE GLOBAL REFUGEE AND DISPLACEMENT CRISIS?

The London Board Reception gathered our closest Committee and Board members to discuss about the global refugee and displacement crisis at the Ham Yard Hotel on Monday 12th of February.

The mass movement of people in the world today is one of the biggest human rights crises of our time. The scale of this global refugee crisis is unprecedented, but too often, the world’s response has been shamefully inadequate.

Human Rights Watch is playing a critical and unique role in responding to the global refugee crisis. We are working to expose and overturn the human rights abuses that force people to flee. We are pressuring and persuading host countries to fulfil their legal and moral obligations to treat the desperate and vulnerable arrivals with dignity, to assess their refugee claims fairly, and not to return them to countries where they would suffer further abuse or persecution.

We weere pleased to be joined that evening by Executive Director Kenneth Roth, Women's Rights Researcher Skye Wheeler, Western Europe Researcher Eva Cossé and Emergencies Researcher Jonathan Pedneault for a captivating panel that lead to a Q&A.
August 17, 2018

Film Festival Benefit 2018

FILM FESTIVAL BENEFIT 2018

The London Premiere of THIS IS CONGO took place at our Film Festival Benefit on Wednesday 7 March 2018 at the Royal Institute of British Architects to celebrate the power of film to raise awareness of human rights issues and the power of personal stories to galvanise action around the world.

In THIS IS CONGO, a whiste-blower, a patriotic military commander, a mineral dealer and a displaced tailor offer their perspectives on the problems that plague the Democratic Republic of Congo today. THIS IS CONGO provides a beautifully immersive and unfiltered look into the lives of four characters who exemplify a unique resilience while living through Africa’s longest continuing conflict.

The Film Festival Benefit marked the start of the 2018 Human Rights Watch London Film Festival which ran from 7-16 March in several venues throughout London.

Stay tuned for our 2019 Film Festival Benefit.