-Caveat Lector-

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html

              Who is behind Human Rights Watch?

              The backgrounds of the Board members at Human Rights Watch
(HRW), Europe-Central Asia section, with info on
              HRW and its sources of funding. HRW is founded on the idea
that the values of the United States are universal, and
              that the US must impose them on the rest of the world. As the
largest human-rights lobby, it is partly responsible for
              the increasingly expansionist US foreign policy.

No US citizen, and no US organisation, has any right to impose US values on
Europe. No concentration camps or mass graves can justify that imposition.
But Human Rights Watch finds it
self-evident, that the United States may legitimately restructure any
society, where a mass grave is found. That was always a widespread belief
in
the United States, but it is fast becoming a consensus
among the foreign policy elite. Human Rights Watch itself is part of that
elite, which includes government departments, foundations, NGO's and
academics. It is not a association of "concerned
private citizens". HRW board members include present and past government
employees, and overlapping directorates link it to the major foreign policy
lobbies in the US. Cynically summarised, it is
a joint venture of George Soros and the State Department.

Human Rights Watch is an almost exclusively US-American organisation. Its
version of human rights is the Anglo-American tradition. It is
"mono-ethical", recognising no legitimate ethical values
outside its own. (Redistribution of wealth is a well-known example. In the
Anglo-American human-rights tradition, seizure and redistribution of the
property of the rich is unethical. The tradition
recognises no inherent value in equality, which could override property
rights).

Although I do not believe that ethical values are culturally specific, it
is
true that one ethical tradition has become associated with the United
States. That includes the universal rights set out in its
Declaration of Independence and its Constitution. In a sense the US was
"designed" as an interventionist power: interventionist human-rights
organisations are a logical result. They express the
belief of most US citizens, that their values are superior to all others.

Human Rights Watch operates a number of discriminatory exclusions, to
maintain its character.

       Firstly, it is linguistically racist. Although it publishes material
in foreign languages to promote its views, the organisation itself is
English-only.

       Secondly, the organisation discriminates on grounds of nationality.
As the list below makes clear, non-Americans are systematically excluded at
board level. The organisation apparently
       recruits employees only in the United States, in English. (US
readers
of this site may be unfamiliar with multilingual cross-border employment,
but it does exist in Europe).

       Third, the organisation discriminates on grounds of social class.
Again, the list makes clear that board members are recruited from the upper
class, and upper-middle class. Although I traced
       almost all the board members professions, there are none from
middle-income occupations - let alone any poor illegal immigrants, or
Somali
peasants.

Human Rights Watch can therefore claim no ethical superiority. It is itself
involved in practices it condemns elsewhere, such as discrimination in
employment, and exclusion from social structures. It
can also claim no neutrality. An organisation which will not allow a Serb
or
Somali to be a board member, can give no neutral assessment of a Serbian or
Somali state. It would probably be
impossible for an all-American, English-only elite organisation, to be
anything else but paternalistic.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Helsinki Steering Committee

This is the Europe section of the Board of HRW, which is split into
sections
approximately by continent. The section was established in 1978 (in the
late
1970's human rights became the main issue
in Cold War propaganda). The unit in the organisation is called the Europe
and Central Asia Division. It is affiliated with the International Helsinki
Federation for Human Rights, which co-ordinates
the "Helsinki committees". Source: HRW Board of Directors & Advisory
Committees

Jonathan Fanton, Chair

       An academic and foundation man. Former Vice President of the
University of Chicago, in 1982 appointed as President of the New School for
Social Research, now the New School
       University. He is active in building US academic contacts with
eastern Europe, directed at the new pro-western elites, see the
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS)
       page.

Alice H. Henkin, Co-Vice Chair

       Director of the Justice and Society Program at the Aspen Institute,
an elite think-tank.

       Note their report Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to Justice
proposing United Nations mission strategies later used in Kosovo.

Peter Osnos, Co-Vice Chair

       George Soros' publisher. He is Chief Executive of Public Affairs
publishers.

Morton Abramowitz

       A link to the US Foreign Policy establishment, one of several at
HRW.
Abramowitz was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1989-91) and Assistant Secretary
of State for Intelligence
       and Research (1985-89), among other posts: see his personal details
at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, where he is a Fellow. The CFR is
the heart of interventionist US
       policy since 1921 (and hated by the isolationist right).

       He directed the CFR Balkan Economic Task Force, which published a
report on "Reconstructing the Balkans".

Barbara Finberg

       A donor of HRW, see the list below. A retired vice president with
the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, who donated $1 million to Stanford
University.

Felice Gaer

       Human rights specialist at the American Jewish Committee and chair
of
the Steering Committee for the 50th anniversary of the UN Human Rights
Declaration, see this biography:
       "Ms.Gaer is Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the
Advancement of Human Rights. Author, speaker, and activist, she is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
       Board of Directors of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, a member of
the
International Human Rights Council at the Carter Center, ...Vice President
of the International League for
       Human Rights."
       According to this JTA report, Gaer praised Madeleine Albright for
her
"outstanding human rights record".

       Felice Gaer was also a non-governmental member of the United States
delegation to a United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva,
where (according to the Voice
       of America) she denounced Sudan, saying the the U.S. "cannot accept
those who invoke Islam or other religions as justification for atrocious
human rights abuses." However, more
       interesting is this speech at the Geneva meeting, where she
suggested
the UN should no longer investigate prison rapes in the US: "we would urge
the Special Rapporteurs to focus
       their attention on countries where the situation is the most dire
and
the abuses the most severe."

Michael Gellert

       Vice Chairman of the Board at Fanton's New School for Social
Research. Investment manager and Trustee of the Carnegie Institute.

       Gellert is a director of Premier Parks Inc., owner of the Six Flags
and Walibi theme park chains. Also a director of:
       High Speed Access Corp.,
       Devon Energy Corporation,
       Humana Inc..

Paul Goble

       Director of Communications and political commentator at Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cold War propaganda transmitters that survived
the
end of the Cold War. From
       their website

       "Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as non-profit, private
corporations to broadcast news and current affairs programs to Eastern
European countries behind the Iron
       Curtain. The Radio Liberty Committee, Inc., was created two years
later along the same lines to broadcast to the nations inside the Soviet
Union. Both were funded principally by the
       U.S. Congress, through the Central Intelligence Agency, but they
also
received some private donations as well. The two corporations were merged
into a single RFE/RL, Inc. in
       1975."

       It is still funded by the US Government, through Congressional
appropriation.

Bill Green

       Former Republican member of Congress, a trustee of the New School
for
Social Research (where Fanton is President), with many other public and
business posts: see the
       biography at the American Assembly, an academic/political
think-tank.

Stanley Hoffman

       A pro-interventionist theorist (of course that means US
intervention,
not a Taliban invasion of the US). Professor at Harvard, see his biography.
Note that his colleagues include
       Daniel Goldhagen, who openly advocated occupation of Serbia, to
impose a US-style democracy: see A New Serbia.

Robert James

       Also on the Board of Human Rights in China, another Soros-funded
organisation.

Jack Matlock

       US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during its collapse, 1987-1991.
Author of Autopsy On An Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the
Collapse of the Soviet Union
       (Random House, 1995).

       Member of the large Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council. The
Atlantic Council is more than a pro-NATO fan club: it supports an
expansionist US foreign policy in general.
       Note their recent paper (in pdf format) Beyond Kosovo, a redesign of
the Balkans within the framework of the proposed Stability Pact.

       The Atlantic Council list of sponsors is a delight for
corporate-conspiracy theorists. Yes, it is all paid for by the Rockefeller
foundation, the Soros foundation, the Nuclear Energy
       Institute, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Exxon, British Nuclear Fuels,
the US Army and the European Union.

       Conspiracy theorists will also be delighted to see that Matlock
attended the 1996 Bilderberg Conference.

Herbert Okun

       Career diplomat, former Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to Secretary
of
State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on
the
former Yugoslavia. Member
       of the Board of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) and
its affiliate the Committee for National Security (CNS) which gives this
biography:

       Ambassador Herbert Okun is the U.S. member and Vice-President of the
International Narcotics Control Board, and Visiting Lecturer on
       International Law at Yale Law School. Previously, he was the Deputy
Chairman on the U.S. delegation at the SALT II negotiations and led the
       U.S. delegation in the trilateral U.S.-U.K.-USSR Talks on the CTBT.
>From 1991 to 1993 Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to
       Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Personal Envoy of the U.N. Secretary
General, and Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the
       former Yugoslavia. He also served as Deputy Permanent Representative
of the United States to the UN from 1985 to 1989 serving on the General
       Assembly, the Disarmament Committee and the Committee on Peaceful
Uses of Outer Space. Amb. Okun was also U.S. Ambassador to the former
       German Democratic Republic.

       He was from 1990-97 Executive Director of the Financial Services
Volunteer Corps, "a non-profit organization providing voluntary assistance
to help establish free-market financial
       systems in former communist countries", see his biography at
International Security Studies at Yale University, where he is also a board
member. This Corps is a de facto agency of
       USAID, see how it is listed country-by-country in their report.
Although it is not relevant to Human Rights Watch, this curriculum vitae
gives a good impression of the kind of
       international elite created by such programs.

       Okun is also a member emeritus of the board of the European
Institute
in Washington, an Atlanticist lobby. It organises the European-American
Policy Forum, the
       European-American Congressional Forum, and the Transatlantic Joint
Security Policies Project. Okun is a special advisor to the Carnegie
Commission on Preventing Deadly
       Conflict funded by the Carnegie Corporation. (It links pro-western
international elite figures advocating a formal structure for control of
states by the "international community").

       Okun was a member of a Task Force (including Bianca Jagger and
George
Soros) on war criminals: see their report . Although it also demands "UN
Sanctions Against States
       Harboring Indicted War Criminals" it is unlikely that the Task Force
members meant the man quoted at the start of their report, President
Clinton.

       A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of an attempt to
destroy the right to free speech, in his post at the International
Narcotics
Control Board: see A Duty to Censor:
       U.N. Officials Want to Crack Down on Drug War Protesters in the
libertarian Reason Magazine.

Jane Olson

       Also co-chair of the California section of HRW, see this biography.
One of the few who are simply human rights activists, although her views
are
clearly 100% acceptable to the US
       Government. She was appointed a member of the U.S. delegation to the
1991 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Moscow.

       Again note, that US citizens consider it normal to travel to Europe,
to decide on that continents Security and Cooperation - but there is
absolutely no "Conference on North
       American Security and Cooperation", where Europeans arrive to tell
Americans what to do.

       She is also a member of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, one of many small globalist groups, advocating peace and some
vague form of world government.

Barnett Rubin

       Academic and Soros-institutes advisor. Director of the "Center for
Preventive Action" at the Council on Foreign Relations.The center is funded
by the US Government through
       USIP, and by the Carnegie Corporation as part of their program
Preventing Deadly Conflict. "Preventive Action" means intervention.

       He is a member of the centers South Balkans Working Group, and
edited
a 1996 Council on Foreign Relations study Towards Comprehensive Peace in
Southeast Europe:
       Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. Rubin is an Afghanistan
specialist, also on the Board of the Asia division of HRW. He authored and
edited several works on
       Afghanistan. Rubin apparently has a curious attitude to the Taliban,
seeing them as a bulwark against Islamic radicalism . See this letter to
NPR, entitled Afghanistan Whitewash:
       While the Lyden-Rubin conversation made no mention of US support for
the Taliban, they referred several times to US "pressure" on the Taliban
       to now respect human rights. This is a total white wash which
distorts the historical record beyond recognition.

       Rubin is on the Advisory Board of the Soros Foundation Central
Eurasia Project. He is an advisor of the Forced Migration Project of Soros'
Open Society Institute, and he is also
       on the Board of the Soros Humanitarian Fund for Tajikistan. Perhaps
most interesting is that the U.S. Institute of Peace (a de facto government
agency) gave him a grant to research
       "formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia".
       Barnett Rubin articles on Central Asia

       This may be repetitive, but note once again that there are
absolutely
no Foundations or Institutes in Central Asia, which pay people to design
"new state systems" in North America.
       For people like Rubin "human rights" mean simply that the US designs
the world: at the same time, the US might accept the Taliban, if it was a
strategic interest. See this article at
       the Soros Central Asia site, The Political Economy of War and Peace
in Afghanistan, advocating a de facto colonial government in Afghanistan
financed by oil revenues.

       Rubin is also a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee
on Religious Freedom Abroad. The Final Report of this Committee also sums
up
what the United States
       can do, when it finds religious freedom has been infringed. The list
begins at "friendly, persuasive: open an embassy" and ends with "act of
war".

       Rubin was also involved in the 1997 New York meeting, where the
United States attempted to create a unified Yugoslav opposition, with among
others Vuk Draskovic. (The effort
       failed at the time, and ever since).

Leon Sigal

       NOTE: I can find no website matching this info on "Leon Sigal" to
HRW. I assume it is the same person, although I do not understand why an
expert on Asian issues is on the
       board for the European division of HRW.

       Consultant to the Social Science Research Council, member of the
Board of Advisors at Globalbeat Syndicate, part of the New York University
Dept of Journalism. See their article
       on Lessons From The War In Kosovo.

       From Globalbeat:
       He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times,
where he wrote frequently on nuclear issues, and is the author of many
       books and articles on both international security and media issues.

       Sigal authored Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North
Korea (Princeton University Press 1998). He is a Project member of the
Committee on Nuclear Policy.

Malcolm Smith

       no information yet

George Soros
>From the Public Affairs site, the biography of George Soros, financier of
HRW and of numerous organisations in eastern Europe with pro-American,
pro-market policies.

       George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. In 1947 he
emigrated to England, where he graduated from the London School of
Economics.
       While a student in London, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work
of
the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his
       thinking and later on his philanthropic activities. In 1956 he moved
to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune
       through an international investment fund he founded and managed.

       Mr. Soros currently serves as chairman of Soros Fund Management
L.L.C., a private investment management firm that serves as principal
       investment advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds. The Quantum Fund
N.V., the oldest and largest fund within the Quantum Group, is generally
       recognized as having the best performance record of any investment
fund in the world in its twenty-nine-year history.

       Mr. Soros established his first foundation, the Open Society Fund,
in
New York in 1979 and his first Eastern European foundation in Hungary
       in 1984. He now funds a network of foundations that operate in
thirty-one countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe, and the former
       Soviet Union, as well as southern Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mongolia
and the United States. These foundations are dedicated to building and
       maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society.
Mr. Soros has also founded other major institutions, such as the Central
       European University and the International Science Foundation. In
1994, the foundations in the network spent a total of approximately $300
       million; in 1995, $350 million; in 1996, $362 million; and in 1997,
$428 million. Giving for 1998 is expected to be maintained at that level.

       In addition to many articles on the political and economic changes
in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of
       The Alchemy of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, Underwriting
Democracy, and Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve.

       Mr. Soros has received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School
for Social Research, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University
       of Economics, and Yale University. In 1995, the University of
Bologna
awarded Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa, in
       recognition of his efforts to promote open societies throughout the
world.

       Soros Foundations Network

       Open Society Institute Staff Directory

       Privatization Project

       Open Society Institute Budapest

Donald J. Sutherland

       Also on the advisory board of the World Policy Institute.

Ruti Teitel

       Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York Law School, see his
biography. In the last few years he has specialised in the Constitutions of
eastern European countries, and
       advised on the new Ukrainian constitution.

William D. Zabel

       George Soros legal advisor, on foundation and charity law. A estate
and family financial lawyer for the rich at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. His
biography lists his involvement with
       these Soros Foundations: "Newly Independent States and the Baltic
Republics, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Central European University and
Open Society Fund". See this
       biographical article originally from the National Law Journal:
       When fate knocks, rich ring for Zabel

       He is a trustee of Fanton's New School of Social Research, and
member
of the Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute at the New School.

       Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. The
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights is one of the partners in the "Apparel
Industry Partnership", a group
       set up by the Clinton administration and the US clothing and
footwear
industries to defuse criticism of conditions in their factories. The (not
particularly radical) US trade union
       federation refuses to co-operate with it.

       Zabel is also on the Board of Doctors of the World, the USA branch
of
Midecins du Monde, founded by Bernard Kouchner in 1980. Kouchner is now the
UN Representative ( the
       "governor") in Kosovo. Despite the name, Midecins du Monde is a
purely western organisation, see the affiliate list.

Warren Zimmermann

       US Ambassador to Yugoslavia during its break-up, author of Origins
of
Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers. A Cold-War career diplomat,
long
active in US human rights
       campaigns against eastern Europe. See this site for an extreme
pro-Bosniac assessment of his book by Branka Magas, alleging he appeased
Milosevic: "In the event, by pursuing
       Yugoslavia's unity rather than supporting Slovenia and Croatia in
their demands for either the country's confederal transformation or its
peaceful dissolution, the United States
       helped ensure its violent break-up". (I think it is logically
consistent with US values and interests, that the US supported one policy
around 1990 and another in Kosovo. The real
       problem is that so many people in Europe expect the US to design
their states and write their Constitutions. It is because of this attitude,
that people like Zimmermann, and
       organisations like HRW, can flourish) Zimmermann is now a professor
of Diplomacy at Columbia University. If you think the "amoral diplomat" is
a
stereotype, look at his
       Contemporary Diplomacy course. This is his assignment for the young
future diplomats:

       Imagine that you are a member of Secretary Albright's Policy
Planning
Staff. She has asked you to write a strategy paper for one of the
       following diplomatic challenges:

       --Dealing with NATO expansion and with the countries affected;

       --Crafting a more energetic and assertive US approach to the
Israeli-PLO deadlock;

       --Raising the American profile in sub-Saharan Africa;

       --Developing a US initiative to improve relations with Cuba;

       --Forging an American approach to Central Asia and its energy
wealth;

       --Making better use of the UN and other multilateral organizations
like OSCE;

       --Weighing the relative priorities between pursuing human rights

       and keeping open lucrative economic opportunities;

       --Increasing interest in, and support for, US foreign policy among
the American people.

       With Barnett Rubin, Zimmermann is a member of the Advisory Board of
the Forced Migration Project at Soros Open Society Institute.

       With Felice Gaer, Zimmermann is also on the Board of the
quasi-commercial International Dispute Resolution Associates. (Peacemaking
has become big business, but IDR is also
       funded by the US Government through the USIP).

       He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs

HRW DONORS

>From the HRW website, this 1995 list is is the latest available online.

       DONORS OF $100,000 OR MORE

       Dorothy and Lewis Cullman
       The Aaron Diamond Foundation
       Irene Diamond
       The Ford Foundation
       The Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett Fund
       Estate of Anne Johnson
       The J. M. Kaplan Fund
       The Fanny and Leo Koerner Charitable Trust
       The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
       The John Merck Fund
       The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
       Novib, The Dutch Organization for Development Corporation,
       The Overbrook Foundation
       Oxfam
       Donald Pels
       The Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust
       The Rockefeller Foundation
       Marion and Herbert Sandler, The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
       Susan and George Soros
       Shelby White and Leon Levy

       DONORS OF $25,000 - $99,999

       The Arca Foundation
       Helen and Robert Bernstein
       Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
       Nikki and David Brown
       Carnegie Corporation of New York
       Compton Foundation, Inc.
       Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davis
       The Dr. Seuss Foundation
       Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
       Jack Edelman
       Epstein Philanthropies
       Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de L'Homme
       Barbara Finberg
       General Service Foundation
       Abby Gilmore and Arthur Freierman
       Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
       Katherine Graham, The Washington Post Company
       Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
       Hudson News
       Independence Foundation
       The Isenberg Family Charitable Trust
       The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
       Robert and Ardis James
       Jesuit Refugee Service
       Nancy and Jerome Kohlberg
       Lyn and Norman Lear
       Joshua Mailman
       Medico International
       Moriah Fund, Inc.
       Ruth Mott Fund
       Kathleen Peratis and Richard Frank
       Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
       Ploughshares Fund
       Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
       Anita and Gordon Roddick
       Edna and Richard Salomon
       Lorraine and Sid Sheinberg
       Margaret R. Spanel
       Time Warner Inc.
       U.S. Jesuit Conference
       Warner Brothers, Inc.
       Edie and Lew Wasserman
       Maureen White and Steven Rattner
       Malcolm Wiener and Carolyn Seely Wiener
       The Winston Foundation for World Peace

                                                  Why human rights are
wrong

                                                   Kosovo Intervention
Ethics
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From: Ron Jacobs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: more on hrw Date: Tue, 10
Jul 2001 13:01:05 -0400

from Z:

Another complex structural issue of the organization must also be
confronted. Where does the money come from? Funding sources cannot be
overlooked in any NGO; in the end, funding at least influencesand often
determinesbehavior. HRW receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the
Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Both of these donors
receive most of their income from global corporations that have been (and
are) involved in significant human rights abuses.

Other major funders include: Phillips Van Heusen which is involved in
sweatshop and anti-union activity in Central America; the Arthur Anderson
Co., a multinational accounting firm that often does business for
irresponsible corporations and governments that violate human rights;
Reebok, which specializes in low-paid labor; Continental Grain Co., a
multinational agribusiness that controls much of the world grain market;
Body Shop, and others.

Also, many communications giants are HRW funders. These include the
Washington Post (an anti-union firm that is friendly with the U.S.
government); the New York Times (also an anti-union company currently
trying to suppress the rights of freelance writers); Time Warner; Warner
Bros.; Disney-owned Capitol Cities/ABC (which is currently in a bitter
dispute with one of its unions); NBC (which is owned by arms giant General
Electric); CBS; the Hearst Book Group; Random House; and American Express
Publishing Co.

There are progressive funders too, including the Lillian Hellman and
Dashiell Hammett Fund, Mike Farrell and Shelly Faberes, Norman Lear and
others. The question is: how do the donors affect the organization? It is
unreal to pretend that they dont.

Human Rights Watch recently faced this question in quite concrete terms,
according to a report in the April 7 issue of the Washington, DC-based
Corporate Crime Reporter (CCR). According to CCR, Human Rights Watch
released a report in March documenting how the Phillips Van Heusen
corporation mistreats its workers in Guatemala. Bruce Klatsky is the Chief
Executive Officer of PVH and also a board member of Human Rights Watch.

After reading a draft of the report, Klatsky personally flew to Guatemala
to attend to the problem: PVH has been refusing to negotiate with its
unions in Guatemala for six years and has been collaborating with the
government there to break the labor organizations. Report in hand, Klatsky
ordered his local company officials to end harassment of local union
officials and to begin good-faith bargaining with the unions.

The HRW report and Klatskys action came after the U.S./Guatemala Labor
Education Project threatened to picket the HRW annual fundraiser last fall
at the New York Museum of Natural History.

U.S./GLEP project director Stephen Coats told CCR: "Human Rights Watch
should be congratulated for its work. It is a difficult thing for any
organization, let alone a human rights organization, to investigate
allegations of abuses by a company whose CEO is on its board of directors."

Even the watchers need watching. They too are quite human.

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