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Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth

Executive Director Follow @kenroth

Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world. He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses, devoting special attention to issues of international justice, counterterrorism, the foreign policies of the major powers, and the work of the United Nations.

 

Articles Authored:

Defending Human Rights Values Under Attack, 11 Newspapers in Europe, June 22, 2016

Multimedia:

Lateline Interview on Manus Island detention Center Closing, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 27, 2016

Media Profiles:

"Thunder on the Rights," Vanity Fair, September 19, 2008

Human Rights Watch Reports:

Twin Threats: How the Politics of Fear and the Crushing of Civil Society Imperil Global Rights (January 27, 2016)

Videos

From HRW

  • January 12, 2017 Video

    2017 World Report: Executive Director Kenneth Roth

  • April 14, 2016 Video

    Indonesia: HRW and KontraS Press Conference

  • July 13, 2015 Video

    Three Years After ICC Warrant Issued, FDLR Leader Still At Large

Articles Authored

  • November 30, 2018 Commentary

    The Saudi Crown Prince Should Fear the Long Reach of Justice

    Published in Washington Post
  • September 7, 2018 Commentary

    Will the centre-right stand up for EU values?

    Published in EU Observer
  • September 4, 2018 Commentary

    Before We Pay $250bn to ‘Rebuild Syria’, We Should Force Putin to Stop the Endless Death and Destruction

    Published in Independent
  • August 1, 2018 Commentary

    Nikki Haley Blames Rights Groups for Her Misguided ‘Reform’

    Published in The Hill
  • July 27, 2018 Commentary

    Russia’s Responsibility in the Syrian Reconquest of Idlib

    Published in The New York Review of Books
  • July 13, 2018 Dispatches

    In Helsinki, High Stakes and History for Trump and Putin

    Published in Reuters
  • July 11, 2018 Commentary

    Ensuring that the ICC Rises to the Challenge

    Published in Foreign Policy In Focus
  • June 7, 2018 Commentary

    Global Leaders, Beware: Russia Will Use the World Cup to Whitewash its War Crimes

    Published in Washington Post
  • January 18, 2018 Commentary

    America Treats Illegal Immigration Worse Than Most Crimes. Why?

    Published in The Washington Post
  • January 11, 2018 World Report Chapter

    The Pushback Against the Populist Challenge

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