Patricia Gossman
Patricia Gossman is an associate director for the Asia division. Prior to joining HRW, Dr. Gossman was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice on Afghanistan, and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project, an OSI-funded project to document war crimes committed during the Afghan conflict, 1978-2001. She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering not only Afghanistan, but India, Pakistan and Nepal. Dr. Gossman received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region.
Articles Authored
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April 27, 2017
Afghanistan’s War Takes Horrific Toll on its Children
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April 25, 2017
Afghanistan Shows No Real Progress in Ending Torture
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April 19, 2017
Afghanistan’s Entrenched Systemic Torture
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March 8, 2017
Deadly Attack on Afghan Hospital a War Crime
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February 26, 2017
Afghan LGBT Asylum Seekers in UK Among Most Vulnerable
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February 6, 2017
Afghanistan’s Civilian Casualties Hit Record High in 2016
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January 24, 2017
Why the European Union Shouldn’t Deport Afghans
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December 20, 2016
Freed Afghan Warlord May Punish Those Who Helped Jail Him
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October 20, 2016
Suffer the Afghan Children
Reports Authored
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“No Forgiveness for People Like You”
Executions and Enforced Disappearances in Afghanistan under the Taliban
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“I Thought Our Life Might Get Better”
Implementing Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence against Women Law
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“You Have No Right to Complain”
Education, Social Restrictions, and Justice in Taliban-Held Afghanistan
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