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Alison M.S. Watson, Department of International Relations, University of St Andrews, United College, North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK.

Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Crimes against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, 2nd edn (Penguin, 2002), p. 473.

Reed Brody, Smita Narula, Arvind Ganesan, Joe Stork, Joseph Buttigieg, Jacinda Swanson & Neve Gordon, ‘Human Rights and Global Capitalism: A Roundtable Discussion with Human Rights Watch’, Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2001), pp. 52–71.

For example, the Human Rights Watch Arms Project report, Exposing the Source: US Companies and the Production of Anti‐Personnel Mines (April 1997), received specific funding from Radda barnen (Swedish Save the Children). At the time of the report's publication, the Arms Project also acknowledged funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund and the Ruth Mott Fund. This section is based on much of the information available from the Human Rights Watch website. See http://www.hrw.org for additional information.

See http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/china0803/

See http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/ukraine0803/

See http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/angola0803/

See Michael Ignatieff, ‘Human rights, sovereignty and intervention’, in: Nicholas Owen (ed.), Human Rights, Human Wrongs (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 52–87, for a more wide‐ranging discussion.

Jeri Laber, The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement (Public Affairs, 2002), p. 134.

See http://www.hrw.org/annual‐report/1998/20years6.html

Human Rights Watch World Report 2001, ‘Introduction’.

Mary Kaldor, Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (Polity, 2003).

Polly Toynbee, ‘Who's afraid of global culture', in: Anthony Giddens & Will Hutton (eds), On The Edge: Living With Global Capitalism (Vintage, 2001), p. 197.

Anthony Giddens & Will Hutton, ‘Fighting back’, in: Giddens & Hutton, On The Edge, p. 222.

See, for example: Sacrificing Women to Save the Family?: Domestic Violence in Uzbekistan, July 2001; Promises Betrayed: Denial of Rights of Bidun, Women, and Freedom of Expression, October 2000; and Hatred in the Hallways: Violence against Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Students in the U.S. Schools, May 2001.

See, for example, Spreading Despair: Russian Abuses in Ingushetia, September 2003.

See, for example: ‘Iraq: Mass Graves Still Unprotected’, available at http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/05/iraq051103.htm; and The Mass Graves of al‐Mahawil: The Truth Uncovered (May 2003), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0503/

See http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/05/drc052103.htm

Alex de Waal, ‘Becoming Shameless: The Failure of Human Rights Organizations in Rwanda’, Times Literary Supplement, April 1997, pp. 3–4.

Brody et al., ‘Human Rights and Global Capitalism’. See also David Rieff, ‘The Precarious Triumph of Human Rights’, The New York Times Magazine, 8 August 1999, section 6, p. 37.

See Sanford F. Schram, Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), p. 80.

One forum for such censure has been the UN Commission on Human Rights, which has been criticised, however, in recent years for allowing a number of violating governments to assemble in the hopes, HRW would argue, of dampening its influence.

Brody et al., ‘Human Rights and Global Capitalism’, p. 55.

Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch Asia, The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India (September 1996), pp. 5, 6.

Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools (March 2001), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/safrica/.

Double Standards: Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya (March 2003), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/kenya0303/

‘Editorial’, Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2000).

Robertson, Crimes against Humanity, p. 347.

See http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm

Robertson, Crimes against Humanity, p. 369.

See http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm

See http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/docs/ken‐icc0909.htm

Kaldor, Global Civil Society, p. 7.

Afghanistan: The Massacre in Mazar‐i Sharif (November 1998), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports98/afghan/

Humanity Denied: Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan (October 2001), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan3/

James D. Ross, ‘Promoting Human Rights’, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2002), pp. 27–32. See also Closed Door Policy: Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Iran (February 2002), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/pakistan/

Human Rights Watch, September 11: One Year On, A Message to the Human Rights Watch Community, available at http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/09/sept11.html

See http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm

Michael Ignatieff, ‘Is the Human Rights Era Ending?’, New York Times, 5 February 2002.

See The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities (January 1999), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/nigeria/index.htm

See http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/04/ecuador0425.htm

See The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations (January 1999), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/enron/

Ibid.

Peter T. Muchlinski, ‘Human Rights and Multinationals: Is There a Problem?’, International Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2001), p. 32.

See, for example, U.N.: New Standards for Corporations and Human Rights, available at http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/08/un081303.htm

No Financing for Russia's War in Chechnya (December 1999), available at http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/dec/chech1215.htm

See http://www.hrw.org/asia/china.php

See http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/06/ang0622.htm

Muchlinski, ‘Human Rights and Multinationals’, p. 35.

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Alison M.S. Watson

Alison M.S. Watson, Department of International Relations, University of St Andrews, United College, North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK.