Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organisation that investigates and exposes human rights abuses around the world. Its origins lie in Helsinki Watch, set up to monitor whether the Soviet bloc complied with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. Robert Bernstein was a leading founder. Similar committees for the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East followed, and in 1988 they were brought together under the present name. Based in New York, it publishes reports and presses governments to change policy. It shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Before and after
- from January 1978 to February 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1978Origins of Ironman Triathlon
- 1978Nicaraguan Revolution
- 1978Founding of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
- 1978Founding of Human Rights Watch
- 1978First edition of Sundance Film Festival
- 1978Founding of Donkervoort
- 1978Rasputin
- 1978Rise of new wave of British heavy metal
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- 22 March 1945Founding of Arab League
- 8 August 1967Founding of ASEAN
- 10 December 1987Rise of Hamas
- 1994Rise of Taliban
- 1 January 1995Founding of World Trade Organization
- 11 September 2001September 11 attacks
The era
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