Human Rights Watch

fHRW has continued excellent work around the world to protect victims of human rights violations and vulnerable populations from persecution and abuse through on-the-ground research and reporting, dissemination of information to the public and national and international policymakers, advocacy, and by providing evidence to international tribunals. HRW also encourages greater corporate consciousness of its role with respect to international human rights. Some of HRW's current work includes the crisis in Darfur and the spillover violence into Chad, abuses of Iraqi refugees, the decline of democracy in Venezuela, punishment of dissent in Zimbabwe, protection of the legal profession's independence in China, and counterterrorism threats to civil liberties in the United States. Because of its high-quality work, SP is recommending this renewal for twice the size of the grant it is renewing (05-6384).