Human Rights Watch
To provide emergency funding to threatened Cambodian human rights activist Chan Soveth, to enable him seek temporary refuge in Thailand.
To provide emergency funding to threatened Cambodian human rights activist Chan Soveth, to enable him seek temporary refuge in Thailand.
To provide an annual contribution.
To provide travel subsidies to participants from the northeastern US in the International People’s Dioxin Action Summit.
To organize two community outreach conferences to address the Cerro Grande fire and its impact on Los Alamos National Laboratory.
To initiate and continue litigation using the principle that foreign human rights violators can be sued in US courts.
To develop local and regional solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
To provide technical support to the international criminal tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
To increase public understanding of the scientific uncertainties about the safety and impacts of genetically engineered food production; and to ensure that federal regulation of genetically engineered foods reflects those uncertainties.
To encourage national debate on nuclear weapons and to encourage US and Russian policymakers on the importance of moving toward abolition of nuclear weapons.
To increase understanding among policymakers and heighten public awareness of the damaging ecosystem effects from nitrogen pollution in the Northeastern US; and to make scientific information more readily usable for nonscientists who are determining environmental policies.