Human Rights Watch v Amnesty International

I admire the work that both Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) do. I was wondering if anybody knew of a difference between the two. What are the pros and cons of each organization? I appreciate any and all answers.

In Solidarity. . .
Chris

I found the answer on HRW's website.

I'd like to know people's opinions on the two organizations, which do you prefer?

Both are great organizations. There's no "v" there.

"We" - my wife and I.

clarification:
I put the "V" there because I wanted to know the differences, not because they are competing organizations.

I didn't take it that you thought of them that way. I was, perhaps not stated, encouraging you to support both.

We donate to both, and both of us write letters on behalf of prisoners around the world, and to our own reps about human rights violations.

The nice thing is, that it works (sometimes). We get to read about prisoners being released that we've written about. We get letters from our senators and reps explaining their positions. (We live in a liberal state - WA - so they generally agree with us). We also get defensive letters from some, trying to weasel out of their stances.

Anyway, it should be an either/or proposition. Both deserve your support if you care about human rights. Neither are out to make $$$.

I do know that the corporate media seems to want to paint them as "anti-American." The US government has a history of denying claims made about our own, and our allies, human rights record--but then pulls out the Amnesty International quotes when they are about the current enemy's human rights record.

I remember writing letters to help free a poet who had been given life imprisonment for writing about flowers--and that was considered counter-revolutionary. He was eventually freed. I think about that quite a bit--imprisoned for writing poems about nature when the government did not approve.