Human Rights Watch

When HRW published their report on orphanages in China in 1996, they were overwhelmed by the response from electronically connected adoptive parents. That's when they realized this whole Internet thing was going to be big. As a volunteer, I built the Web site from the ground up and, over the years, produced additional sections of the site.

I joined the staff as Web Campaigner in 2001 and launched a redesign. In 2002, we debuted a basic PHP system to automate our country pages. And in 2003, we moved the site to a mod_perl-based content management system to decentralize and automate much of the routine maintenance of the site.

See also: HRW T-shirts.

HRW home page, 2002

HRW home page, 1999

1999 World Report front

report page

report page

HRW home page, 1996