What is Human Rights Watch?

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international organization based in New York.

The HRW defends rights for people worldwide, focusing their work on issues like: • Torture • Discrimination • Kidnapping • Unfair trials • Religious freedom

HRW works in 80 countries worldwide, talking with victims and witnesses to human rights abuses as parts of investigations. Governments and international media use HRW's investigations because of their access to information and verification of facts. Human Rights Watch also works with local human rights groups to provide governments concrete ideas for change.

Human Rights Watch has more than 275 permanent employees as of August 2008.

Their work is complemented by the support of volunteers who advise them for free. Kenneth Roth has been the director of Human Rights Watch since 1993. Wikipedia states that HRW gets 85.6 million US-dollars (2019).

One of their big successes, is the abolition of child soldiers in the USA. Since 2000, when the Clinton government signed the treaty, the US-administration accepted, that the minimum allowed age for becoming a soldier is 18.