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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards 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.

I've been following, along with kleptocracy expert Casey Michel and authoritarian regime experts Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa of Gaslit Nation, Human Rights Watch's European Media Director Andrew Stroehlein since November 2016, when I did a deep dive into the nascent resistance in search of reliable experts and sources.

Here's a few links from Andrew Stroehlein's Twitter in the last couple of days: