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Heather Barr

Heather Barr

Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division Follow @heatherbarr1

Heather Barr is a senior researcher on women’s rights at Human Rights Watch. She has done research in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea, on issues including child marriage, girls’ education, violence against women, refugee and prisoners’ rights, and trafficking.

She joined Human Rights Watch in 2011 as the Afghanistan researcher, after working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Burundi. After law school she litigated for discharge planning for prisoners with psychosocial disabilities in New York City, and founded an alternative-to-incarceration program. Before law school, she worked with homeless women. She is a graduate of London School of Economics, Columbia Law School, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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From HRW

  • October 17, 2017 Video

    Afghanistan: Girls Struggle for an Education

  • September 7, 2016 Video

    Video - Child Marriage in Nepal: Our Time to Sing and Play

Articles Authored

  • February 7, 2013 Commentary

    No end in sight to state torture in Afghanistan

    Published in Public Service Europe
  • December 21, 2012 Commentary

    Long road ahead for Afghan women

    Published in CNN
  • December 29, 2011 Commentary

    Last Chance to Get it Right in Afghanistan

    Published in The Huffington Post

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Reports Authored

  • October 17, 2017

    “I Won’t Be a Doctor, and One Day You’ll Be Sick”

    Girls’ Access to Education in Afghanistan

  • September 8, 2016

    “Our Time to Sing and Play”

    Child Marriage in Nepal

  • November 4, 2015

    Bashed Up

    Family Violence in Papua New Guinea

  • June 9, 2015

    Marry Before Your House is Swept Away

    Child Marriage in Bangladesh

  • November 20, 2013

    Unwelcome Guests

    Iran’s Violation of Afghan Refugee and Migrant Rights

  • March 28, 2012

    “I Had To Run Away”

    The Imprisonment of Women and Girls for “Moral Crimes” in Afghanistan

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