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Clive Baldwin

Senior Legal Adviser
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Clive Baldwin is Senior Legal Advisor for the legal and policy office at Human Rights Watch, where he has been working on issues of international law since 2007.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Clive was a practicing lawyer in London for the human rights law firm, Bindman and Partners, and worked on European human rights litigation at the AIRE Centre. He subsequently worked for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and later served as Head of Advocacy for Minority Rights Group International. While at Minority Rights Group, Clive implemented the organization’s first global litigation program. The cases he litigated included the Endorois Community v Kenya, the first Indigenous land rights case at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. In Finci v Bosnia-Hercegovina, he helped successfully challenge the Bosnian constitution’s exclusion of Jews from the presidency and upper house of parliament in the first such ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Clive helped Human Rights Watch initiate a case with two other organizations against Libya in 2011 that resulted in the first ruling against a state by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Clive received a bachelors degree in international history and politics from the University of Leeds, a masters in international relations from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and studied law at City University, London. He speaks French.

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