Editing Human Rights Watch (section)

== Criticism ==
{{main|Criticism of Human Rights Watch}}
HRW has been criticized for perceived bias by the national governments it has investigated for human rights abuses.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/middleeast/egypt-human-rights-watch-muslim-brotherhood.html |title=After Human Rights Watch Report, Egypt Says Group Broke Law |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620153350/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/middleeast/egypt-human-rights-watch-muslim-brotherhood.html |archive-date=2018-06-20 |website=The New York Times |date=August 12, 2016 |first1=David D. |last1=Kirkpatrick}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |url=http://yalibnan.com/2016/07/01/saudi-arabia-outraged-by-amnesty-international-and-human-rights-watchs-criticism/ |title=Saudi Arabia outraged by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch's criticism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620153157/http://yalibnan.com/2016/07/01/saudi-arabia-outraged-by-amnesty-international-and-human-rights-watchs-criticism/ |archive-date=2018-06-20 |website=[[Ya Libnan]] |date=July 1, 2016}}</ref><ref name="economist_hrw_ethiopia">{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=1521509&story_id=13061682 |newspaper=The Economist |title=A row over human rights |date=February 5, 2009 |access-date=April 24, 2012 |archive-date=December 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216050158/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2009/02/05/a-row-over-human-rights |url-status=live}}</ref> Some sources allege HRW is biased against Israel in its coverage of the [[Israel–Palestine conflict]].<ref name="Bernstein_19102009"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Friedman|first1=Matti|title=What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/|date=November 30, 2014|access-date=May 14, 2020|archive-date=December 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210143643/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2014, two [[Nobel Peace Laureates]], [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]] and [[Mairead Maguire]], wrote a letter signed by 100 other human rights activists and scholars criticizing HRW for its revolving-door hiring practices with the U.S. government, its failure to denounce the U.S. practice of [[Extraordinary rendition|extrajudicial rendition]], its endorsement of the U.S. [[2011 military intervention in Libya]], and its silence during the [[2004 Haitian coup d'état]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1345216431 |title=Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy |date=2023 |publisher= Haymarket Books|isbn=978-1-64259-812-4 |location= |pages=94 |oclc=1345216431|last1=Davis |first1=Stuart}}</ref>

In 2020, HRW's board of directors discovered that HRW accepted a $470,000 donation from Saudi real estate magnate [[Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber]], owner of a company HRW "had previously identified as complicit in labor rights abuse", under the condition that the donation not be used to support LGBT advocacy in the Middle East and North Africa. After ''[[The Intercept]]'' reported the donation, it was returned, and HRW issued a statement that accepting it was "deeply regrettable".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/human-rights-watch-took-money-from-saudi-businessman-after-documenting-his-coercive-labor-practices/|title=Human Rights Watch Took Money From Saudi Businessman After Documenting His Coercive Labor Practices|first=Alex|last=Emmons|date=March 2, 2020|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=February 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218182610/https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/human-rights-watch-took-money-from-saudi-businessman-after-documenting-his-coercive-labor-practices/|url-status=live}}</ref>