Guest Speaker from Human Rights Watch

The Director of the Human Rights Watch Paris Office Jean-Marie Fardeau was at AGS on November 19 to give a talk and answer students' questions in Professor Anand's International Organizations class. Mr. Fardeau presented the role and mission of HRW as one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. He gave detailed explanations of the actions that HRW carries out, the way it calls international attention to where human rights are violated, the obstacles it has to overcome in order to accomplish this mission, and its most recent success stories.

M.A. in International Relations student Nora Hartmann, class of 2011, comments "It was amazing to have a director from such an important organization come and answer our questions. He said that he was interested in having us ask all we wanted on every aspect of HRW. We were able to get very thorough first-hand information."