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Cynthia could be tough as nails, and plenty intimidating, but once you got to know her she had a warmth and empathy that made her a great friend and clearly informed her passion for the human rights cause
What is needed is serious, sustained pressure on the government, on Karzai, and whomever comes after him to live up to the basic elements of a democratic societyMore quotes »
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Guantanamo: ‘An Unmitigated Disaster’, Says HRW
force against those responsible for the attacks. More than 11 years later that law is still in effect. On May 16, 2013, Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, testified before the US Senate Armed Services Committee on the laws of war and the from Eurasia Review Read more »
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Cynthia Brown | Rights activist, 60
for the organization. In 1993, she became its first program director, overseeing every report it published. Executive Director Kenneth Roth said Thursday that Ms. Brown "played a central role in establishing the high standards that have come to define Human from Philadelphia Inquirer Read more »
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Do we want police drones in SoCal skies?: Opinion
public intellectuals are asking, as Kenneth Roth does in the New York Review of Books, "How should we control the drones?" But what they mostly mean is: What rules should govern drone attacks by the United States armed forces, or the CIA, on suspected terrorists from L.A. Daily News Read more »
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HRW’s Kenneth Roth Fails Reading Comprehension
have never called for nor celebrated attacks on civilians," which is hardly the same as opposing such attacks] then I wouldn’t give Roth a hard time. Of if Roth had acknowledged that Seif supports attacks on Israeli civilians, but claimed that her true importance from The Volokh Conspiracy Read more »
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HRW on the spot over Rwanda
Executive Director of US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), Kenneth Roth was on Tuesday put on the spot over his disdain for the Rwandan government, which critics say has led him to commit ‘serious professional mistakes’ as a rights advocate. This occurred during from New Times Read more »
