A classroom at St. Mary's Catholic School in Niger state, Nigeria, November 23, 2025. © 2025 Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye / AFP via Getty Images

Andy,

The stakes could not be higher for Human Rights Watch as we enter 2026, so I wanted to make sure you saw this: Our generous donors have extended the 3X-MATCH on all gifts toward our $250,000 year-end goal – until tomorrow at midnight.

We’re only one day into the new year and already facing major crises. Around the world, governments are retreating from rights-based leadership and undermining international institutions that enable cooperation. Autocrats are refining their tactics – weaponizing technology, crushing dissent and exploiting division – to entrench power and dismantle checks on authority.

We’re racing to meet our goal so that we have the resources to take on what’s ahead. Please, will you give right now to maximize this 3X match before it expires – and help us keep fighting for justice in 2026 and beyond?

3X MY GIFT

Here’s what your support makes possible:

Investigate: Our researchers work in 100 countries, uncovering abuses with on-the-ground interviews, evidence analysis and digital tools, like satellite imagery, to build an unimpeachable record.

Expose: We amplify the stories of survivors and witnesses through a global platform – reaching 13 million followers and generating news coverage in 60 languages across 400,000+ annual media mentions.

Change: Our advocates press governments and corporations worldwide, offering practical solutions and forging alliances with communities and partners to strengthen the human rights movement.

Our voice remains independent because we refuse government funding – which means we rely on supporters like you.

The 3X match ends tomorrow at midnight. Please, make your gift now and help us start 2026 with the resources to meet what’s coming.

3X MY GIFT

With human rights violations escalating around the world, your support has never mattered more. Thank you for your generosity.

Philippe Bolopion
Executive Director
Human Rights Watch

*** Individual gift match capped at $10,000

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Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening all around the world. We are roughly 550-plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists and others who work to protect the most at risk groups and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy toward governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and carefully review all donations to ensure that they are consistent with our policies, mission and values. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

Our work is organized around three pillars:

Investigate: Our researchers work in the field in 100+ countries, uncovering facts that create an undeniable record of human rights abuses.

Expose: We tell the stories of what we found, sharing them with millions of social media and online followers each day. News media often report on our investigations, furthering our reach.

Change: We meet with governments, the United Nations, rebel groups, corporations and others to see that policy is changed, laws are enforced and justice is served.

Your support will power our work to investigate human rights abuses, expose the truth and hold perpetrators accountable in 100+ countries.

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