HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, headed by Executive Director Kenneth Roth, is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.

"The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important... Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses." Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books "An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate." Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times

• Foreword;Rights Struggles of 2013 ~ Kenneth Roth;The Human Rights Case for Drug Reform ~ Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno;Putting Development to Rights ~ David Mepham;The Right Whose Time Has Come (Again) ~ Dinah PoKempner;Photo Essays;Africa;Americas;Asia;Europe and Central Asia;Middle East and North Africa;United States and Canada;2013 Human Rights Watch Publications.