Fred Abrahams, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's emergencies division, specializes in human rights crises and armed conflict. He has documented human rights and international humanitarian law violations in places such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uganda, Lebanon, Libya, Gaza, Iraq, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia. He coordinated Human Rights Watch's coverage of the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, and in 2001 he testified for the prosecution in the case against Slobodan Milosevic. Abrahams has a B.A. in German and International Studies and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. He speaks German and Albanian.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Complicit in Crime: State Collusion in Abductions and Child Recruitment by the Karuna Group (January 24, 2007)

Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Torture and Extrajudicial Killings by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force (December 14, 2006)

Libya: Words to Deeds: The Urgent Need for Human Rights Reform (January 25, 2006)

Articles

"Kosovo's Tricky Waltz," Foreign Policy in Focus, February 7, 2007

 "Iraqi Civilians Fall Victim to Hair Triggers," Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2003

 "Face to Face with Milosevic," The New York Times, July 21, 2002

"The man who bugs Israel and Hamas by unraveling their claims," The Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2009

Israel/Gaza Interview, August 17, 2009