UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/ Human Rights Watch wrote in a statement published on its website, “Tirana Hassan”, a 48-year-old woman who first joined the organization in 2010, became the first woman to hold the position of Executive Director of this non-governmental organization.
What is HRW?
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners.
In 1997, HRW shared the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. It played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions.
HRW’s annual expenses totaled $50.6 million in 2011,$69.2 million in 2014, and $75.5 million in 2017.
HRW publishes research reports on violations of international human rights norms as set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what it perceives to be other internationally accepted human-rights norms. These reports are used as the basis for drawing international attention to abuses and pressuring governments and international organizations to reform.
Tirana Hassan
In this way, in this position, Tirana Hassan succeeded “Kenneth Roth” who worked for 29 years as the head of this non-governmental organization.
Reviewing the statement published by Human Rights Watch, Tirana Hassan is a lawyer and researcher in the field of human rights and has documented human rights violations in crises and wars around the world.
Tirana Hassan was born in Singapore. Her father is Pakistani and her mother is Chinese Malaysian born in Sri Lanka.
She temporarily replaced Kenneth Roth from the position of executive director of HRW in September 2022.
According to this statement, Tirana Hassan left Human Rights Watch to work for Amnesty International and returned to Human Rights Watch as a program manager in 2020.