{"id":430089,"date":"2026-02-17T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:18:08","slug":"jenn-lawrence-elected-as-a-trustee-of-human-rights-watch-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430089\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenn Lawrence elected as a Trustee of Human Rights Watch UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jen-Lawrence-HS-cropped-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monckton.com\/barrister\/jenn-lawrence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenn Lawrence<\/a> has been elected as a Trustee of Human Rights Watch UK, the UK legal entity of the New York-headquartered nonprofit watchdog. Jenn said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to have been elected to the Board of Trustees at Human Rights Watch UK.<\/p>\n<p>HRW investigates and reports on human rights abuses worldwide, campaigning to change policy\u00a0and intervening in strategic litigation where appropriate. HRW\u2019s recent work has included investigations into the human rights implications of the curtailing of the right to protest in the United Kingdom, the Israel-Gaza war, the treatment of the Uyghurs in T\u00fcrkiye and state censorship in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I\u2019ve been following the organisation for some time now and am looking forward to working with the Board to further matters of particular impact for those in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenn Lawrence has been elected as a Trustee of Human Rights Watch UK, the UK legal entity of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-430089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}