James Ross is Legal and Policy Director at Human Rights Watch, where he has worked since 2001.  He previously worked in the Humanitarian Affairs office of  Medecins sans Frontieres in Holland, for the OSCE in Bosnia, the International Human Rights Law Group in Cambodia and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines.  He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.  He has written on US national security issues and on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Improving Civilian Protection in Sri Lanka: Recommendations for the Government and for the LTTE (September 19, 2006)

Articles

"Tigers End Game In Sri Lanka," The Huffington Post, May 1, 2009

"Beware Bush's preemptive strike on torture," Salon.com, July 10, 2008

"The US, the UN and My Friend Leah," The Huffington Post, September 19, 2007

"Psychological Torture and the Bush Administration," The Huffington Post, August 22, 2007

"When Ceasefires Fail," Foreign Policy in Focus, September 15, 2006