Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is an international NGO based in New York City working with human rights issues. The organization was started under the name Helsinki Watch in 1978 to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance to the Helsinki Accords. Other watch organizations was started to cover other parts of the world. They were united in 1988 and formed Human Rights Watch. Whereas most other groups are focused on advocacy and public pressure, HRW's specialty is the production of reports, to establish the details needed for others to do advocacy work. Major issues raised by the organization in its reports include social and gender discrimination, government corruption, and abuses in criminal justice systems in many nations. Human Rights Watch was one of six international NGOs who founded the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in 1998. Like most human rights groups, Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty.

See Also

\n*Amnesty International\n*Democracy Watch (International)

External links

\n* Official homepage \n Category: Social Justice Category:Human rights bodies