César Muñoz

César Muñoz Acebes is Brazil director at Human Rights Watch. He supervises research, advocates for foreign and domestic policies that promote human rights, and leads fundraising efforts in Brazil.

Before his current role, he served as Americas senior researcher and later associate director. In those capacities, he researched and wrote reports and articles, produced videos, and conducted advocacy on human rights abuses linked to illegal deforestation, police abuses, inhumane prison conditions, political persecution, and unchecked domestic violence, among other issues, in several Latin American and Caribbean countries.

César has appeared as a human rights expert on CNN, Al Jazeera, DW, Globo, SBT, Record, TVE, and other broadcasters. He has published opinion articles in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Americas Quarterly, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, El País, and other publications.

Previously, César worked for Agencia EFE, the largest Spanish-language newswire in the world, first as Washington correspondent and later as bureau chief in Ecuador, Paraguay, and Brazil.

As Human Rights Watch’s Bloomberg Fellow in 2001/2002 he produced the organization’s first report on US counterterrorism policy after the 9/11 attacks.

César holds a bachelor’s in media studies from Sacred Heart University (summa cum laude) and a master’s degree in international affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.