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Daniel Wilkinson

Daniel Wilkinson

Managing Director, Americas Division Follow @DWilkinsonNYC

Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, is a general expert on Latin America. He has conducted fieldwork and advocacy throughout the region, and authored reports on human rights issues in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela. Wilkinson's writings on US policy toward Latin America have been widely published. His book, "Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala," won the PEN Award for outstanding first book of nonfiction by an American author. Wilkinson is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He speaks Spanish. 

Articles Authored

  • March 10, 2010 Journal Article

    The Right to Justice

    Published in Americas Quarterly
  • October 9, 2008 Commentary

    Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights

    Published in The New York Review of Books
  • February 21, 2008 Commentary

    Chávez's Fix

    Published in The Nation
  • October 21, 2005 Commentary

    Travel Regulations Undermine Family Values

    Published in The Miami Herald
  • June 21, 2004 Commentary

    Court-Packing Law Threatens Venezuelan Democracy

    Published in The Washington Post
  • April 1, 2004 Commentary

    Democracy is in the Streets

    Published in The Nation
  • March 3, 2004 Commentary

    Help Mexico Put 'Dirty War' to Rest

    Published in The Los Angeles Times
  • January 8, 2004 Commentary

    Discontent with the U.S. south of the border

    Published in International Herald Tribune
  • November 7, 2003 Commentary

    Party To Mass Murder?

    Published in The Washington Post

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Reports Authored

  • November 13, 2017

    Running out the Clock

    How Guatemala’s Courts Could Doom the Fight against Impunity

  • March 20, 2014

    The Crisis in Buenaventura

    Disappearances, Dismemberment, and Displacement in Colombia’s Main Pacific Port

  • December 8, 2009

    Lethal Force

    Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

  • September 18, 2008

    A Decade Under Chávez

    Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela

  • February 12, 2008

    Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission

    A Critical Assessment

  • May 16, 2006

    Mexico: Lost in Transition

    Bold Ambitions, Limited Results for Human Rights Under Fox

  • October 18, 2005

    Families Torn Apart

    The High Cost of U.S. and Cuban Travel Restrictions

  • June 16, 2004

    Rigging the Rule of Law

    Judicial Independence Under Siege in Venezuela

  • July 23, 2003

    Justice in Jeopardy

    Why Mexico’s First Real Effort To Address Past Abuses Risks Becoming Its Latest Failure

  • November 8, 2002

    A Wrong Turn

    The Record of the Colombian Attorney General's Office

  • December 5, 2001

    Military Injustice

    Mexico's Failure to Punish Army Abuses

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