Human Rights Watch

 

The largest human rights organization based in the United States, Human Rights Watch started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, monitoring the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords.

In the 1980s Americas Watch was established to monitor abuses by both sides in the war in Central America, and thereafter other committees were set up to cover other regions of the world such as Asia and Africa.

In 1988 all the “Watch” committees were united to form Human Rights Watch. The organization’s researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world, and their findings are then published in dozens of books and reports every year.

This database contains annual reports (1996 – 2010)

and selected country reports (1992 – 2010).

Website: www.hrw.org

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL LONDON MARCH 17-26, 2010

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The Human Rights Watch Film Festival

returns to London, U.K.

14th edition with 28 films from 20 countries and numerous special guests….

Highlights include:

Opening Night with Raoul Peck’s Moloch Tropical, Closing Night’s The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom and the second edition of the Adobe Youth Producing Change program.

Updates:

New film added to the festival: Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold.

Terry Waite, CBE will moderate panel for In the Land of the Free

This year three distinct themes have emerged in the programme: Closed Societies: Iran and North Korea, Accountability and Justice and Development and Migration.
Films screen at The Ritzy, ICA, Curzon Soho and Curzon Mayfair.

Listen to a podcast featuring Andrea Holley, Deputy Director of the HRWFF as she speaks about some of this year’s festival highlights.

Download FESTIVAL PROGRAM: 2010 London Festival program (16 pages PDF 1.7 mb)