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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 - 2016) and selected country reports (1992 - 2016).  Website: www.hrw.org
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Isolated in Yunnan: Kachin Refugees from Burma in China's Yunnan Province

26 June 2012 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

"Untold Miseries," Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma's Kachin State

20 March 2012 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

"I Want to Help My Own People" : State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis

28 April 2010 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

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