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KLMNO Gift to boost global reach of Human Rights Watch BY COLUM LYNCH
new york — The $100 million gift toHuman RightsWatch from billionaire George Soros an- nounced lastweekwill extend the overseas presence of the influen- tial American rights champion and ensure its financial health for years to come. But the goal of the gift is more
ambitious still: to alter the way humanrights arepromotedinthe 21st century,making rights advo- cacy less of an exclusively Ameri- can and European cause. Thedonation, the largest single
gift ever from the Hungarian- born investor and philanthropist, is premised on the belief thatU.S. leadership on human rights has been diminished by a decade of harsh policies in the war on ter- rorism. Soros said he hopes the money will cultivate a much broader constituency of foreign policymakers and philanthro-
pistswhoembrace thenotionthat human rights should be observed universally. “Unfortunately, we lost the
moral high ground during the Bush administration and the Obama administration has not done enough to regain it,” Soros said in an interview. “Therefore human rights as an American cause is often resisted because it comes fromAmerica. “Yet the principal of human
rights is auniversalprincipal, and people in other parts of theworld believe it is as strongly as we do, even more strongly,” he said. “To be more efficient, Human Rights Watchhas tobecome a truly inter- national organization.” The rights group,which covers
more than 90 countries from 45 locations, will build its research capacity, adding more than 120 employees to an organization of 300. The group will also set up regionalheadquarters inthe capi- tals of emerging political and eco-
nomic powers, where leaders have frequently criticized human rights advocacy as aWestern tool to impose their will on small countries. “We need to be able to shape
the foreign policies of these emerging powers, much as we have traditionally done with Western powers,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Hu- man RightsWatch. “Our aimis to enlist places like Brazil, South Africa, India and Japan, all gov- ernments that are democracies.” HumanRightsWatch regularly
comes under attack fromgovern- ments around the world, includ- ing China, Russia, Israel, Iran, Syria, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. “American organizations, in-
cludingHRW,havenocredibility,” a Syrian minister told the Wash- ington Post last year after the rights group issued a critical re- port on the government. “Let them go check the violations un-
dertaken by the previous admin- istrationfromGuantanamotothe flying prisons to the violations of human rights in Gaza before they talk about other countries.” Human Rights Watch notes
that it has conducted extensive inquiries into allegations of abus- es inGaza and atGuantanamo. Soros, 80, has stepped up his
philanthropy, spending more than $700 million over the past year on causes ranging fromsup- plies forNewYorkCity schoolchil- dren to Pakistan flood relief ef- forts. The Human Rights Watch gift
will consist of $10million annual grants over the next decade. Hu- man Rights Watch is expected to find funding tomatch that grant. It isalsoseekingtocultivateanew generation of foreign donors to fund the group’s activities. Today, Human RightsWatch receives 30 percent of its funding from abroad, mostly from Europe and some fromJapan. Ithasatargetof
raising 40 percent of its funding fromabroadwithinfive years and 50 percentwithin a decade. The large injection of money
fromSoroshighlightsareversalof fortune from 2008, when the re- cession eliminated 7 percent of the organization’s funding. Last year,Human RightsWatch raised $45 million, its most in a single year. It plans to increase its annu- al budget to $80 million within five years. “The plan is to deepen our
researchandbroadenouradvoca- cy,”Roth said. The precursor to Human
Rights Watch, Helsinki Watch, was founded in 1978 to monitor humanrights abuses inthe Soviet Union, and the organization sub- sequently set up similar branches forLatinAmerica,Asia andAfrica before placing themall under the HumanRightsWatch umbrella in 1988. “When we created Human
Rights Watch, one of the main purposes at the outset was to leverage the power, the purse and
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the influence of theUnited States to try to promote human rights in other countries,” said Aryeh Neier, the president of the Open Society Institute.Neier, a founder ofHumanRightsWatch, servedas the organization’s executive di- rector for 12 years. “The United States’ influence globally ismuch less than it was in the earlier years.” Neier and Roth said the politi-
calandeconomicriseofChinahas hindered the promotion of hu- manrights.Beijinghasprovideda model of a rising economic pow- erhouse that has succeeded with- out embracing Western values of democracy and human rights, Neier said, and has also provided governments with a powerful commercial partner that does not place human rights performance as a condition on cooperation. “I don’t know that Human
RightsWatchis going tobe able to establish a presence in China to makeChina a force for promoting human rights,” Neier said. But he noted that there are important humanrightspromoters inBrazil, South Africa and other countries thatmayhave a greater impact on their own national debates.
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