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[url="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/George-Soros-gives-100M-to-apf-2633350744.html?x=0"]George Soros gives $100M to Human Rights Watch[/url]

Soros' donation is meant to help Human Rights Watch volunteers around the world entice other donors to give enough additional money to boost the organization's budget from $48 million a year to $80 million within five years. The organization envisions hiring about 120 more staffers -- primarily researchers and advocates -- and [size="6"]setting up new offices to encourage such emerging powers as India and Brazil to make human rights a keystone of their foreign policies.[/size]



But the money also is meant to make its donor base as international as its outlook. Plans call for Human Rights Watch to draw at least half its income and most of its board members from outside the U.S. within five years. Now, about 70 percent of the money and 80 percent of the board members are U.S.-based.