Dr. Anna Neistat, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's emergencies division and a specialist in humanitarian crises, works to investigate and expose human rights violations in crisis situations on a rapid-response basis. She has experience working in Haiti, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Belarus, and Israel. Previously, as director of Human Rights Watch's Moscow office, Neistat worked on the conflict in Chechnya and other human rights problems in the former Soviet Union, and acted as the organization's spokesperson in the region. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Neistat worked for "Echo of Moscow," Russia's leading radio station, the Open Society Institute, and as a constitutional law researcher at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Neistat holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, a J.D. and Ph.D. in law, and an M.S. in history and philology.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Recurring Nightmare: State Responsibility for "Disappearances" and Abductions in Sri Lanka (March 6, 2008)

Spreading Despair: Russian Abuses in Ingushetia (September 22, 2003)

Articles

"Diary," London Review of Books, July 6, 2006

"Nepal: But it's Not Too Late to Prevent New Bloodshed," The Nepali Times, March 24, 2006

"What Mr. Blair Should Say to the Russian President," The Independent, June 26, 2003