bin_forgottin: Re Chavez Regime:....In one case reported to Human Rights Watch, a 98-year-old woman was denied medicines that she had long received from a state developmentbin_forgottin: agency because, as her family was told by the program secretary, she had signed the referendum petition

rebuttal:hrw no credibility heres why not..Hoge Named Human Rights Watch Chairman http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=81318&catid=38 Human Rights Watch said Sunday it picked Foreign Affairs magazine editor James F. Hoge Jr. to be the fourth chairman in the group's 32-year history. Since 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations has published Foreign Affairs, "America's most influential publication on international affairs and foreign policyhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foreign_Affairs

Funding

On January 1, 2005 they obtained a five-year, $15 million challenge grant from the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation.http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandler_Family_Supporting_Foundation

On January 1, 2005 "Human Rights Watch has announced a five-year, $15 million challenge grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler, co-CEOs of Oakland-based Golden West Financial Corporation.

"The grant, the largest in the organization's twenty-six year history, will strengthen its ability to respond to urgent crises worldwide. The Sandlers and their children will donate $3 million a year for five years through the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation as long as Human Rights Watch raises $6 million annually in matching funds from first-time donors or existing donors who increase their contributions." 

"The Sandlers and their children will donate $3 million a year for five years through the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation as long as Human Rights Watch raises $6 million annually in matching funds from first-time donors or existing donors who increase their contributions."