2016 Reports

Rachel Denber Alumni of the Year (2016)

On February 11, 2016, the Harriman Institute honored Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW), as 2016 Alumna of the Year. Denber has courageously promoted human rights in the post-Soviet region for nearly 25 years. She started at HRW in 1991 as a researcher on the Soviet Union just months before its collapse and spent the ensuing months travelling around the former Soviet republics on human rights fact-finding missions, and working to open the inaugural Helsinki Watch office in Moscow.