Peggy Hicks, global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, has specialized expertise on the United Nations, particularly UN peacekeeping, and the Balkans. Hicks is responsible for coordinating Human Rights Watch's advocacy team and providing direction to advocacy worldwide. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2005, Hicks served as director of the Office for Returns and Communications in the UN mission in Kosovo. She has also worked for the International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights), the Deputy High Representative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the former Yugoslavia, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and as clinical professor of human rights and refugee law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Hicks is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the University of Michigan.

Human Rights Watch Reports

US: Human Rights Agenda for the New Administration, (November 14, 2008)

Principled Leadership: A Human Rights Agenda for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Human Rights Watch World Report (January 11, 2007)

Articles

"Don't Write it Off Yet," International Herald Tribune, June 21, 2007

"How to Put U.N. Rights Council Back on Track," The Forward, November 3, 2006

"American Disdain Hurts UN Reform," International Herald Tribune, January 10, 2006