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Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups. Each year, Human Rights Watch publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. With the leverage this brings, Human Rights Watch meets with governments, the United Nations, regional groups like the African Union and the European Union, financial institutions, and corporations to press for changes in policy and practice that promote human rights and justice around the world. Meet the investigators behind Human Rights Watch's work. MISSION STATEMENT Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people worldwide. We scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. Human Rights Watch is an independent, international organization that works as part of a vibrant movement to uphold human dignity and advance the cause of human rights for all. CORE VALUES - WE ARE: COMMITTED TO OUR MISSION OF DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE . We are committed to maintaining high standards of accuracy and fairness, including by seeking out multiple perspectives to develop an in- depth, analytic understanding of events. We recognize a particular responsibility for the victims and witnesses who have shared their experiences with us. . We succeed only when our actions lead to positive and sustainable change. We are never complacent, always on the lookout for new opportunities to advance our cause. We also are committed to working on difficult situations, where long-term attention is required for meaningful impact. Human Rights Watch Names New Board Co-chairs Two prominent human rights advocates have lead the international board of Human Rights Watch since October 2016. Felix is the Senior Ethiopia and Eritrea researcher for Human Rights Watch. Based in Ottawa he has documented the human rights dimensions of Ethiopia’s development programs, telecom surveillance, media freedoms, misuse of the counterterrorism law and other topical issues in the Horn of Africa including most recently the year-long crackdown against peaceful protesters in Ethiopia. Prior to working for HRW, Felix has worked on a variety of indigenous rights and land issues in northern Canada and internationally including several years of research into the impacts of agricultural investment in several African countries. He holds a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie University and an undergraduate degree in urban planning from the University of Saskatchewan. Jehanne Henry is a team leader in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division. She supervises and contributes to the work on Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya and has also worked on Chad. She has worked with the organization since 2008 focusing initially on the conflict in Darfur, then on a range of other issues in Sudan and South Sudan. Prior to joining the organization, she served as a human rights officer with the United Nations Mission in Sudan based in North Darfur. She has worked on human rights and rule of law issues with USAID in Cambodia and as a legal adviser in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and managed a legal aid program with the American Refugee Committee in Kosovo. Henry has also worked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and clerked for a U.S. federal judge in New York. She is admitted to the New York state bar. However, a combination of forces has accumulated in support of the protesters – diaspora groups and international human rights organizations helped publicize the protest movement in Ethiopia and the government’s violent response; the US Congress rallied behind H. Res. 128; international news outlets gave frequent coverage of the protests. At the dawn of this new year, the EPRDF coalition announced reforms and some changes began to occur. Close to 7000 political prisoners were released in January and February of 2018, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn stepped down within days, and Dr. Abiy Ahmed, a man with ties to the region most impacted by the protests, was put forward by the coalition as Ethiopia’s newest prime minister. Human Rights Watch Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world. Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world. Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, oversees the organization’s work in the region. Before taking over as South Asia director in 2010, she served as Human Rights Watch’s South Asia researcher since 2004. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Ganguly served as the South Asia correspondent for Mihra Rittmann, Central Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, works primarily on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, covering a wide range of human rights issues including labor rights and freedom of assembly, association, and speech. Rittmann previously worked on Uzbekistan from Human Rights Watch’s Moscow and Tashkent offices, documenting cases of torture and violations of religious freedoms, as well as the persecution of Uzbekistan’s human rights defenders. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Rittmann spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Moscow, collecting oral histories from former political prisoners of the Gulag, the Soviet prison camp system. Rittmann holds a master’s in human rights from the University of Essex and is a graduate of the University of Chicago. She speaks Russian. Nadim Houry is Human Rights Watch's director of its terrorism and counterterrorism program. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Houry served as deputy counsel for the Volcker Commission, where he spent more than a year conducting fact-finding missions in the Middle East as part of the United Nation's corruption inquiry into the Oil-for-Food Programme. An attorney by training, Nadim worked as a corporate lawyer for Shearman & Sterling in New York for two years. He is fluent in Arabic and French.