A sorry development

Has Human Rights Watch compromised its integrity in pursuit of dollars? I'd like to be able to answer 'no'. But on the basis of what he's assembled here, I think Jeffrey Goldberg makes a convincing case that this is exactly what HRW appears to have done. If so, it's one more step along the rotten road of human rights organizations becoming politicized in a way that betrays their function. Of course, campaigning for human rights is itself a kind of politics. But to do it effectively, human rights organizations need to be disinterested, impartial - above suspicion of forms of partisanship other than those germane to rights campaigning as such. (Thanks: MA.)