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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Women’s March “Movement Friend”

Founded: 1978 as “Helsinki Watch”, 1981 as Human Rights Watch

Founder:

Website:

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Agenda:

  • 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

Funder:

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:

@mlcanineu

sarahmargon

hrwfilmfestival

@BenJeannerod

kenroth

iainlevine

@BrunoStagno

BradMAdams

PIERREbairin

cliveabaldwin

DanielBekele

Bolopion

bouckap

  • Zama Neff: Executive Director, Children’s Rights Division

ZamaHRW

EmmaDaly

DickerRichard

@kanaedoi

@JohnFisher_hrw

BillFrelick

mg2411

  • Liesl Gerntholtz: Executive Director, Women’s Rights Division; Interim Director, Africa Division

LieslHRW

SteveDGoose

  • Jackie Kaplan-Perkins: Director

LotteLeicht1

mephamd

WenzelMichalski

snorthfield45

AlisonHRW

PearsonElaine

DinahPoKempner

tomporteous

ShanthaHRW

  • Graeme Reid: Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Graemecreid

@JMVivancoHRW

sarahleah1

  • Lama Fakih: Deputy Director, Middle East, and North Africa Division

lamamfakih

HughAWilliamson

Board of Directors

  • Hassan Elmasry: Co-Chair; Partner & Lead Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
  • 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
  • Bruce Rabb: Secretary; Legal Adviser to Nonprofit Organizations
  • Sid Sheinberg: Partner, The Bubble Factory; Former Chief Operating Officer, MCA/Universal
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • John Studzinski: Global Head, Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. The Blackstone Group
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