Human Rights Watch Names First Chief Programs Officer

(New York, October 5, 2020) – The accomplished human rights researcher, lawyer, and activist Tirana Hassan has joined Human Rights Watch as its first Chief Programs Officer. In this role Hassan will oversee Human Rights Watch’s research, advocacy, media, and legal work, supervising a staff of more than 300 professionals in more than 50 countries. Click to expand Image “At a challenging moment for the human rights movement, we need to intensify our efforts to defend our common humanity, to fight for our shared aspiration for justice, and to protect the fundamental dignity of everyone,”…

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