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Amanda Klasing

Amanda Klasing

Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division Follow @amklasing

Amanda Klasing is a senior researcher in the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch. Her work focuses on sexual and domestic violence, reproductive rights and women's health, indigenous rights, and economic and social rights. She is a specialist in the rights to water and sanitation.

Amanda has carried out research and advocacy on a number of human rights issues including: the First Nations water crisis in Canada; the rights of women and girls in affected by Zika in Brazil and in Haiti after the earthquake; sexual violence and other forms of violence against women displaced by conflict in Colombia; accountability for victims of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti; the relationship between women’s and girls’ human rights and access to good menstrual hygiene management; and the rights to water and sanitation in schools. Amanda has also researched and analyzed the women’s rights impacts of the 2016 US Election, including the restrictions on women's reproductive health and rights in the US and abroad, threats to protections for survivors of gender-based violence and efforts to decrease women's access to health care. 

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Amanda’s work included indigenous rights and development in Mexico, indigenous women’s role in transitional justice in Peru, and Dalit rights in India. She has also worked more broadly on immigrant rights in the United States and economic, social, and cultural rights, with a focus on the rights to water and food in Haiti.

Amanda published in peer-reviewed journals on the right to water and on human rights and humanitarian response and is a contributing author of an academic book on health and human rights. She has spoken before United Nations human rights bodies. Her op-eds have run in Jurist, CNN, The Globe and Mail, the Huffington Post and other outlets. She has made radio and TV appearances on outlets including the BBC, Voice of America, CCTV, and CNN Spanish. She is a founding member of the Human Rights Methodology Lab.

Amanda holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and a law degree from New York University, where she received the Vanderbilt Medal for outstanding contributions to the Law School.

Videos

From HRW

  • December 12, 2016 Video

    HRW: The Investigators

  • June 7, 2016 Video

    Canada's Water Crisis: Indigenous Families at Risk

Articles Authored

  • September 26, 2016 Blog

    Tainted Water Issue Much Deeper Than Flint

  • August 30, 2016 Commentary

    Human Right to Water at Risk in First Nations Communities

    Published in The Globe and Mail
  • May 10, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Legal Abortion Still Out of Reach for Many in Colombia

  • March 21, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: For Water ‘Have Nots,’ Rights Matter

  • March 18, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Chile’s Welcome Move on Abortion

  • March 8, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: UN - Canada Needs to Address Water in First Nations

  • January 26, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Zika Warnings Versus Realities Women Face

  • January 25, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Why Flint’s Tainted Water is a Human Rights Disaster

  • December 17, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: UN Resolution Enshrines Rights to Clean Drinking Water, Sanitation

  • November 10, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Why Irish Women are Live-Tweeting Periods

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Reports Authored

  • July 12, 2017

    Neglected and Unprotected

    The Impact of the Zika Outbreak on Women and Girls in Northeastern Brazil

  • April 19, 2017

    “Going to the Toilet When You Want”

    Sanitation as a Human Right

  • June 7, 2016

    Make it Safe

    Canada’s Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis

  • August 23, 2013

    Rape Victims as Criminals

    Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador

  • November 14, 2012

    Rights Out of Reach

    Obstacles to Health, Justice, and Protection for Displaced Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Colombia

  • August 19, 2011

    “Nobody Remembers Us”

    Failure to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Right to Health and Security in Post-Earthquake Haiti

  • April 14, 2011

    Haiti’s Rendezvous with History

    The Case of Jean-Claude Duvalier

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