Coming Events

Thursday, March 4, 7pm
NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South
Vanderbilt Hall, Tishman Auditorium

Human Rights Watch —jonied by it’s Young Advocates, Amnesty International, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law, and the Al-Fatiha Foundation for LGBTIQ Muslims—invites you to participate in an urgent discussion about Egypt’s violent campaign against homosexual conduct. This event highlights the recent release of In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt’s Crackdown on Homosexual Conduct, a report produced by Human Rights Watch in collaboration with a few courageous Egyptian organizations that support equal protections for all.

Participants will learn what we can do in the United States to combat repression and torture in Egypt and elsewhere. We can all work to end the use of Internet entrapment in Egypt. We can all serve a vital function by exploring how international medical standards and groups protect everyone’s bodily integrity.

Speakers will include Scott Long, director of Human Rights Watch’s new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Project, and Widney Brown, Human Rights Watch’s deputy program director. Other speakers will talk about the U.S. response and what you can do to help combat torture and repression in Egypt.

For more information, contact the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch: lgbt@hrw.org

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About the Young Advocates

Human Rights Watch's "Young Advocates" group in New York is a group whose purpose is to advance the protection of human rights for everyone, everywhere, through education and advocacy.

The New York Young Advocates are a group of over 500 young professionals in the New York metropolitan area who work with Human Rights Watch staff to provide a vital public outreach function. The group's purpose is to increase awareness of human rights issues and to expand the protection of human rights both locally and globally, through education and advocacy. The Young Advocates organize monthly public education briefings featuring HRW staff and other experts on various human rights topics. These briefings form the basis of a variety of advocacy campaigns aimed at improving human rights protections around the world through targeted petitions, letter writing campaigns and direct assistance with human rights monitoring in the United States.

The Young Advocates work closely with Human Rights Watch staff and researchers to engage people in the human rights cause. The New York group was inspired by a similar group that has been active in Los Angeles for several years. Young Advocates help to advance human rights issues through press conferences, letters to the editor, issue briefings, public discussions with human rights experts and policy makers, petition and letter writing campaigns, informational videos, direct advocacy with government officials, and direct assistance with research and monitoring around specific human rights issues in the United States.

Membership is open to everyone - students, young professionals, and the "young-at-heart." To join the New York Young Advocates, send an email from your preferred email account to YA1-subscribe@lists.hrw.org with the subject line "YA Inquiry."