Lydia Gall

Lydia Gall is a senior Europe researcher. Before joining HRW she worked on documenting violations of humanitarian law and human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.This was followed by extensive work protecting and promoting the rights of the Romani minority in Europe, and a freelance journalist. 

Gall worked as a staff attorney involved in strategic litigation on behalf of Romani victims of human rights abuses, particularly in the fields of housing and education. As a freelance journalist, she wrote extensively on human rights abuses of Roma and on political developments with potential human rights implications in Central and Eastern Europe.