Activist Artists Management, a leading full-service music and talent management firm, announced that it has signed Human Rights Watch, an international organization that promotes and defends human rights around the world. Activist will represent Human Rights Watch's 40+ years of human rights research and advocacy across several content mediums, including scripted and unscripted content in film and television.
Human Rights Watch is well known for uncovering war crimes in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, documenting attacks on activists, women, and LGBT people, and confronting autocracy globally. Activist will extend Human Rights Watch's reach by bringing its research and editorial content to new media formats, to create fresh storytelling opportunities. Activist's Bernie Cahill and Jon Kanak will represent the organization.
"If you want to ensure your children have access to education, know your water is clean, and love the person you want - if you want to live with dignity and justice, you need governments and corporations to respect your human rights," said Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch. "We're excited to work with Hollywood to spread that message and equip committed activists, advocates, and artists standing up for justice through the stories they tell."
"Activist is honored to partner with Human Rights Watch to amplify the important stories of its decades-long fight for justice, dignity, compassion, and equality for people everywhere," said Activist's Bernie Cahill.
Human Rights Watch, which won the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, is known for investigating international human rights violations by governments and other powerful actors around the world. The global organization has exposed abuses and laid the groundwork necessary for meaningful, lasting change in more than 100 countries. Human Rights Watch was instrumental in setting up global tribunals like the International Criminal Court to try individuals responsible for serious international crimes. They have developed methodologies allowing them to work on some of the worst human rights abuses in countries such as China, Iran, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia that are closed to independent researchers. Their staff of 600, based in more than 50 countries, also includes experts on the rights of women, people with disabilities, LGBT people, older people, and children, as well as racial justice, poverty and inequality, and the right to health. Human Rights Watch's mission is to help build a world where we can all live with dignity and where all our rights are respected, no matter where or when we are born.
About Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people worldwide. We scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. Human Rights Watch is an independent, international organization that works as part of a vibrant movement to uphold human dignity and advance the cause of human rights for all. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account. Our work is guided by international human rights and humanitarian law and respect for the dignity of each human being. To maintain our independence, we accept no government funding.
About Activist Artists Management:
Activist Artists Management is a top-tier, full-service Music and Film/TV talent management, integrated media and advisory firm founded on the belief that artists, actors, and brands can create positive change in the world. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, and Atlanta, Activist's clients include The Lumineers, Empire of the Sun, the Grateful Dead, Dead & Company (co-manager Azoff/Moir), Bobby Weir, Dwight Yoakam, Young The Giant, Brittney Spencer, and Michael Franti & Spearhead, as well as iconic actors Ken Watanabe and David Alan Grier, screenwriters Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean, Godzilla vs. Kong), Jeff Eastin (White Collar), Oscar-winning media company Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love), and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Additional areas of focus include Media Rights Consulting for All Elite Wrestling, Cannabis Advisory, Branding and Licensing Consulting, a Family Office Practice. Along with actively measuring and reducing the firm's own carbon footprint, Activist supports vetted and diverse carbon-fighting tours and projects to eliminate significantly more greenhouse gas pollution than we create, making our operations climate positive.
