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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 8, 2017 Commentary

    How the EU Can Manage the Migrant Flow

    Published in Government Gazette
  • September 24, 2017 Statement

    Remarks of Kenneth Roth at the 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award

  • September 19, 2017 Commentary

    The Jig Is Up for Congo’s Embattled President

    Published in Foreign Policy
  • August 16, 2017 Commentary

    Trump’s Cruel Deportations

    Published in The New York Review of Books
  • July 5, 2017 Commentary

    Reaffirming Rights After French And British Votes

    Published in The Huffington Post
  • June 28, 2017 Commentary

    The battle over encryption and what it means for our privacy

    Published in The Globe and Mail
  • June 5, 2017 Commentary

    Nikki Haley Should Help Fix the UN Human Rights Council, Not Abandon It

    Published in Foreign Policy
  • February 21, 2017 Commentary

    We Cannot Afford To Sit Back While Trump Threatens America’s Democracy

    Published in Huffington Post
  • January 12, 2017 Commentary

    We Are on the Verge of Darkness

    Published in Foreign Policy
  • January 12, 2017 Commentary

    The Dangerous Rise of Populism

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