Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Women’s March “Movement Friend”
Founded: 1978 as “Helsinki Watch”, 1981 as Human Rights Watch
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- Adopted a methodology of publicly “naming and shaming” abusive governments through media coverage and through direct exchanges with policymakers since it’s still the Helsinki Watch
- Uses “human rights” as a banner to promote liberal, progressive activism
- Sharp criticism of Israel and the US for “human rights violations”
- Co-founded Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect in 2008
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HRW has received funding from foundations, including the Ahmanson Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Columbia Foundation; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the JEHT Foundation; the J.M. Kaplan Fund; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the Nathan Cummings Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the Righteous Persons Foundation; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Scherman Foundation; and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Postcode Lottery, the Oak Foundation, the Stichting Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds
2008 – 2016 federal grants: N/A
Key people:
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Maria Laura Canineu: Brazil Director, Americas Division
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Sarah Margon: Washington Director
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Bénédicte Jeannerod: France Director
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Kenneth Roth: Executive Director
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Michele Alexander: Deputy Executive Director, Development and Global Initiatives
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Iain Levine: Deputy Executive Director, Program
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Chuck Lustig: Deputy Executive Director of Operations
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Bruno Stagno Ugarte: Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy
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Brad Adams: Asia Director
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Walid Ayoub: Chief Information & Technology Officer (CITO)
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Pierre Bairin: Director, Multimedia
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Clive Baldwin: Senior Legal Adviser
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Daniel Bekele: Senior Director for Africa Advocacy
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Philippe Bolopion: Deputy Director for Global Advocacy
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Peter Bouckaert: Director, Emergencies
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Zama Neff: Executive Director, Children’s Rights Division
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Emma Daly: Director, Communications
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Richard Dicker: Director, International Justice Program
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Kanae Doi: Japan Director
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John Fisher: Geneva Advocacy Director
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Bill Frelick: Director, Refugee Rights Program
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Arvind Ganesan: Director, Business and Human Rights
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Meenakshi Ganguly: South Asia Director
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Liesl Gerntholtz: Executive Director, Women’s Rights Division; Interim Director, Africa Division
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Stephen Goose: Executive Director, Arms Division
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Jasmine Herlt: Managing Director, Development and Outreach
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Jackie Kaplan-Perkins: Director
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Lotte Leicht: EU director and director of HRW’s Brussels office
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Miriam Mahlow: Managing Director, Development and Outreach
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David Mepham: UK Director
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Wenzel Michalski: Director, Germany
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Stephen Northfield: Digital Director
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Babatunde Olugboji: Deputy Program Director
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Alison Leal Parker: Director, US Program
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Elaine Pearson: Australia Director
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Dinah PoKempner: General Counsel
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Tom Porteous: Deputy Program Director
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Shantha Rau Barriga: Director, Disability Rights
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Graeme Reid: Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
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Aisling Reidy: Senior Legal Advisor
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James Ross: Legal and Policy Director
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Joseph Saunders: Deputy Program Director
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Elizabeth Seuling: Managing Director, Development and Outreach
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José Miguel Vivanco: Executive Director, Americas Division
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Sarah Leah Whitson: Executive Director, Middle East, and North Africa Division
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Lama Fakih: Deputy Director, Middle East, and North Africa Division
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Hugh Williamson: Director, Europe and Central Asia Division
Board of Directors
- Hassan Elmasry: Co-Chair; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
- Robert Kissane: Co-Chair; Chairman, CCS
- Michael Fisch: Vice-Chair & Treasurer; President & Chief Executive Officer, American Securities, LLC
- Oki Matsumoto: Vice-Chair; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Monex Group, Inc.
- Amy Rao: Vice-Chair; Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Archive Systems
- Amy Towers: Vice-Chair; Founder, Nduna Foundation
- Catherine Zennström: Vice-Chair; Chair & Co-Founder, Zennström Philanthropies
- Bruce Rabb: Secretary; Legal Adviser to Nonprofit Organizations
- Karen Ackman: Landscape Architect
- Akwasi Aidoo: Senior Fellow, Humanity United
- Jorge Castañeda: Professor, New York University; Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
- Leslie Gilbert-Lurie: Writer, Lawyer, Human Rights Advocate
- Paul Gray: Managing Director, Richard Gray Gallery
- Betsy Karel: Photographer; Chair, Trellis Fund
- David Lakhdhir: Partner; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Kimberly Marteau Emerson: Principal, KME Consulting
- Alicia Miñana: Lawyer
- Joan R. Platt: Human Rights Activist
- Neil Rimer: Co-Founder & General Partner, Index Ventures
- Shelley Rubin: Co-Founder, The Rubin Museum of Art
- Ambassador Robin Sanders: (ret) U.S. AMBASSADOR TO Nigeria and ECOWAS, 2007-2010 & Republic of Congo 2002-2005
- Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber: Editor & Publisher, CLÉS Magazines
- Sid Sheinberg: Partner, The Bubble Factory; Former Chief Operating Officer, MCA/Universal
- Bruce Simpson: Director, McKinsey & Company
- Joseph Skrzynski: Co-Founder and Co-Chair, CHAMP Private Equity
- Siri Stolt-Nielsen: Activist, Artist
- Darian Swig: Human Rights Advocate; Founder & President, Article 3 Advisors
- Makoto Takano: Chief Executive Officer, atomic media, inc.; Publisher & Editor-In-Chief, Forbes Japan
- Marie Warburg: Director, American Council on Germany; Director, US and German Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Board Members Emeriti
- Joel Motley: Former Board Chair, 2013-2016; Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC
- James F. Hoge Jr.: Former Board Chair, 2010-2013
- Jane Olson: Former Board Chair, 2004-2010; Chair, Landmine Survivors Network 1998-2010; Board Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
- Jonathan Fanton: Former Board Chair, 1998-2003; Former President, John D., and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Franklin D. Roosevelt Visiting Fellow, Hunter College, CUNY
- Robert Bernstein: Founding Chair, 1978-1998; Former Chairman & President, 1966-1990, Random House
- Lisa Anderson: Former President, American University in Cairo
- David Brown: Principal, Penobscot Management, LLC.
- William D. Carmichael: Human Rights Activist; Retired, Ford Foundation
- Michael E. Gellert: General Partner, Windcrest Partners
- Vartan Gregorian: President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Alice H. Henkin: Director, Emerita Justice, and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
- Stephen L. Kass: Partner & Co-Director, Environmental Practice Group Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Wendy Keys: Filmmaker, Former Executive Producer of Programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Bruce J. Klatsky: Former Board Chair & Chief Executive Officer, Phillips-Van Heusen
- Joanne Leedom-Ackerman: Author; Vice President, International PEN
- Joshua Mailman: Joshua Mailman Foundation
- Susan Manilow: Human Rights Activist
- Samuel Murumba: Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
- Peter Osnos: Founder & Editor at Large, PublicAffairs
- Kathleen Peratis: Senior Partner, Outten, and Golden
- Marina Pinto Kaufman: Human Rights Activist
- Sigrid Rausing: Sigrid Rausing Trust
- Victoria Riskin: Human Rights Activist; Writer-Producer; Former President of the Writers Guild of America
- Kevin Ryan: Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Gilt Groupe
- Orville Schell: Director, Center on US-China Relations; Asia Society; Former Dean of Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
- Gary Sick: Senior Research Scholar & Adjunct Professor of Middle East Politics, Columbia University
- Malcolm B. Smith: Senior Consultant, General American Investors Company, Inc.
- John Studzinski: Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. The Blackstone Group
