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Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID
FLASHBACK 2007 | Hijacking Human Rights | Human Rights Watch
"Indeed, HRW was created in 1978 as the Helsinki Watch (which later became HRW's Europe and Central Asia Advisory Committee) "at the instigation of Arthur Goldberg" with the start-up costs covered by a $400,000 from the Ford Foundation. Furthermore, as Bruce Montgomery (2002) observes their establishment credentials were fortified by Robert L. Bernstein (the founder of HRW) who "began by recruiting the establishment elite to give the cause clout and visibility."