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Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. The San Francisco Committee is part of the Human Rights Watch Council, a global network of individuals and committees in 33 cities around the world. Council members are active ambassadors for Human Rights Watch in their communities and support the work through fundraising, outreach, and advocacy initiatives. Together, we play a key role in the defense of human rights.

News

  • September 3, 2014

    Human Rights Watch is proud to announce the release of a joint multimedia feature with Time magazine and Platon, the internationally acclaimed photographer. 

  • August 25, 2014

    We are pleased to share with you an extended interview on NPR’s Fresh Air program today with Letta Tayler, Human Rights Watch’s senior researcher on terrorist acts and counterterrorism tactics. Letta recently returned from Iraq, where she documented widespread human rights abuses by the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) group and by the Iraqi government.

  • July 25, 2014

    Human Rights Watch criticized the warning, saying it revealed "a mindset that views human rights with disdain, and sees youthful defiance as the enemy."

  • July 25, 2014

    Human Rights Watch Featured on The Daily Show 

  • July 25, 2014
    A report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch claims that children as young as 7 are sometimes working long hours in fields harvesting nicotine- and pesticide-laced tobacco leaves under sometimes hazardous conditions. Most of what the group documented is legal, but it wants cigarette makers to push for safety on farms from which they buy tobacco.
    Human Rights Watch details findings from interviews with more than 140 children working on farms in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, where a majority of the country's tobacco is grown.

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