Activist Artists Management Signs Human Rights Watch For Representation
25.04.2023 - 13:41
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Activist Artists Management on Tuesday announced their signing of Human Rights Watch, the international organization working to promote and defend human rights around the world. Activist’s Bernie Cahill and Jon Kanak will rep the organization, as well as its 40+ years of human rights research and advocacy, helping to extend its reach through the creation of fresh scripted and unscripted storytelling opportunities across film and TV.
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize as part of its International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch is known for investigating international human rights violations by governments and other powerful actors, its mission being to help build a world where we can all live with dignity and where all our rights are respected, no matter where or when we are born. The organization, with no government affiliation or funding, is well known for uncovering war crimes in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Iraq, documenting attacks on activists, women and LGBT people, and confronting autocracy globally.
Human Rights Watch has developed methodologies allowing them to work on some of the worst human rights abuses in countries such as China, Iran, Cuba and Saudi Arabia that are closed to independent researchers, proving instrumental in setting up global tribunals like the International Criminal Court to try individuals responsible for serious international crimes. Their staff of 600, based in more than 50 countries, also includes experts on the rights of women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, older people and children, as well as racial justice, poverty and inequality and the right to health.
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