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Minky Worden

Minky Worden

Director of Global Initiatives Follow @MinkysHighjinks

As Human Rights Watch's Director of Global Initiatives, Minky Worden develops and implements international outreach and advocacy campaigns. She previously served as Human Rights Watch's Media Director, working with the world’s journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in some 90 countries worldwide. Worden has taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) since 2013. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for US Attorneys. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Worden speaks Cantonese and German, and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors. She is the editor of The Unfinished Revolution (Seven Stories Press, 2012) and China's Great Leap (Seven Stories Press, 2008), and the co-editor of Torture (New Press, 2005).

 

Articles Authored

  • January 19, 2015 Commentary

    Human Rights and the 2022 Olympics

    Published in New York Times
  • February 7, 2014 Dispatches

    Dispatches: As Sochi Opens, So Does Russia's Sad Reality

  • February 6, 2014 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Russian Profiles in Courage

  • December 16, 2013 Dispatches

    Dispatches: World Leaders Thinking Twice about Sochi

  • November 23, 2013 Commentary

    Russia’s anti-gay laws threaten the Olympics’ character

    Published in Washington Post
  • October 29, 2013 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Russia’s ‘Anti-Gay’ Olympics?

  • August 13, 2013 Commentary

    Rights at Stake in Olympic Leadership Race

    Published in New York Times
  • May 10, 2013 Commentary

    On Olympic Anniversary, End Hurdles for Saudi Women

    Published in Trust.org (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  • December 24, 2012 Commentary

    In Saudi Arabia, women are confined by technology

    Published in The Washington Post
  • July 10, 2012 Commentary

    Saudi Arabia's unacceptable failure to field female athletes for the Olympics

    Published in The Guardian

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