Tom Porteous
Deputy Program Director
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Tom Porteous is the deputy program director at Human Rights Watch and is based in Washington DC. He joined Human Rights Watch in 2006 as the London director responsible for communications and advocacy in the United Kingdom. Porteous has a background in journalism, diplomacy, and UN peacekeeping. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a freelance correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, the BBC, and other media, first in Cairo and later in Berlin, Algeria, and Morocco. He worked in UN peacekeeping operations in Somalia and Liberia. He also served as conflict management adviser for Africa in the UK's Foreign Office from 2001 to 2003. Porteous studied classics at Oxford University.
Articles Authored
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July 7, 2010
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March 17, 2010
This is Britain’s Chance to Uphold the Olympic Ideal
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May 8, 2009
Gaza: Pursuit of the Laws of War
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January 30, 2008
Making exceptions for Ethiopia
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December 7, 2007
'Rot Here or Die There'
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September 21, 2007
The moral argument for intervention in Darfur
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September 16, 2007
Enabling atrocity
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August 5, 2007
Ethiopia's dirty war
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March 6, 2007
The refugees fleeing Iraq are our responsibility