Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is an independent nonprofit organization that investigates, documents and exposes human rights abuses worldwide, and advocates for policy change and accountability. Founded in 1978, it works at the intersection of international human rights law, fact-finding and public policy, conducting systematic investigations based on firsthand interviews with victims and witnesses and publishing the resulting findings as reports. Its annual World Report analyses human rights practices and trends across the globe.

The organization employs approximately 500 staff members drawn from more than 70 nationalities. Its headquarters are in New York City, with additional offices in Brussels, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Beirut and Nairobi, and it operates across all corners of the globe. Work spans the fields of human rights research and documentation, refugee and humanitarian protection, international justice and advocacy.

Human Rights Watch describes its workforce as united by a shared commitment to defending human rights, with an emphasis on rigorous, evidence-based research grounded in real experiences and on advancing human dignity through exposing facts and holding actors to account.