Human Rights Watch Records, 1977-1997 [Bulk dates: 1989-1995]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Human Rights Watch Records, 1977-1997 [Bulk dates: 1989-1995]

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_7746709

Record Group documents Africa Watch’s (AFW) three-pronged strategy to curb human rights abuses on the Continent through reports, missions and cooperative efforts with other NGOs. First, AFW monitored abuses and produced such comprehensive reports during war as . Second, although access remained difficult in many African countries, Africa Watch was still able to conduct missions to investigate human rights conditions in Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa. AFW circumvented this predicament by exchanging information gathered by local in country monitors with other NGOs. Third, besides engaging in collaborative monitoring activities, Africa Watch engaged in many joint documentation projects and lobbying efforts geared toward ending political and ethnic violence in Africa. Finally, other documentary materials include correspondence and e-mail communications, professional, personal and monitoring activity, field notes, testimonies, interviews, advocacy, policy planning material, and briefing papers. Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia, and Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine and the Reform Process in Mozambique

76.25 linear ft. (61 record cartons)

eng,

fre,

ara,

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6347666

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Human Rights Watch (Organization)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt6pxh (corporateBody)

BIOGHIST REQUIRED This Record Group contains the records of Human Rights Watch/Asia (AW). Established in 1985, Asia Watch monitors and promotes the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Asia. Since its founding, AW has kept refining a three-pronged strategy of documentation, campaigning, and lobbying to expose abuses in the region. By the late 1980s, this strategy came to fruition with regard to China. To illustrate, even before the Tiananmen Square Massacre, AW h...

Human Rights Watch(Organization). Africa Watch.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f3410t (corporateBody)

BIOGHIST REQUIRED In the early 1990s, HRW/Africa expanded its mission beyond its initial concentration on southern Africa and the Horn of Africa to include the entire continent. BIOGHIST REQUIRED The files comprise the following states: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sou...