Brad Adams, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division since 2002, oversees the organization's work on human rights issues in twenty countries, from Afghanistan to the Pacific. At Human Rights Watch, he has worked on a wide range of issues including armed conflict, counter-terrorism, media freedom, refugees, the rule of law, and impunity. He has written for publications including Foreign Affairs, the International Herald Tribune and the Wall Street Journal.

Prior to Human Rights Watch, Mr. Adams worked in Cambodia for five years as the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee, conducting human rights investigations, supervising a judicial reform program, and drafting and revising legislation. A former legal aid lawyer in California, Mr. Adams graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and is a member of the California bar.

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 Commentary

"Justice for the Burmese," International Herald Tribune, February 28, 2010 

"A reform-minded government should end abuses against migrant workers," The Nation, February 24, 2010

"No Blank Check: Japan Should Press Vietnam on Human Rights," Mainchi Shimbun, September 5, 2009

"We cannot Ignore Sri Lanka," The Guardian, April 27, 2009

"Licence to Torture," The Guardian, February 5, 2009

"Bangladesh: Where do the parties stand on human rights?" The Daily Star, December 2, 2008

"Hope Vetoed," Progress Online, June 2, 2008

"Korea needs to open its doors," JoongAng Daily, August 21, 2007

"Burma's road to reform: what has really changed?" The Nation, July 28, 2007

"Cambodia: July 1997: Shock and Aftermath," The Phnom Penh Post, July 27, 2007

"Canada should stand firm in holding China to account on human rights," The Globe and Mail, November 17, 2006 

"Burma before the Security Council," The Nation, October 26, 2006

"My Kingdom for Some Peace," Foreign Affairs, May 3, 2006

"South Korea should act like it knows," The Korea Herald, April 13, 2006

"Nepal at the Precipice," Foreign Affairs, October 12, 2005

"Interview with Brad Adams, outlining Burmese ethnic minority communities' ongoing horrors," The Irrawaddy, September 22, 2005  

"The Other Face of the War on Terror," Dawn, June 2, 2005

"Dead End in Punjab," The Asian Age, December 17, 2004

"Thaksin's Potemkin Welcome for APEC," The Asian Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2003