HRW Response to CERAC Charges about our Colombia Work

In this letter, Human Rights Watch responds to the serious yet groundless charges made about our work in Colombia by University of London Professor Michael Spagat in a recent paper entitled “The Work of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: Evidence from Colombia,” (Andrés Ballesteros, Jorge A. Restrepo, and Juan F. Vargas, coauthors), released by the authors’ Colombian think-tank, CERAC.