Jo Becker
Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Jo Becker is the advocacy director of the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. For the past twenty years, she has carried out research and advocacy on children’s rights, with a particular focus on children and armed conflict and child labor, with a particular focus on hazardous child labor in gold mining and the tobacco sector. Her field investigations have encompassed work in Burma, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the United States. She is co-author of The Hidden Cost of Jewelry: Human Rights in Supply Chains and the Responsibility of Jewelry Companies. In addition to her work at Human Rights Watch, she is also an adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and the award-winning author of two books.
