Kenneth Roth

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Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now visiting professor, Princeton University, SPIA. My new book, "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).

New York Beigetreten Aralık 2008
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This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739898/r…
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Measles, which "can swell the brain and cause permanent disabilities or death," is surging in the US thanks to Trump vaccine skepticism. There have already been 1,700 cases this year, up from 70 per year in the early 2000s. Three children died last year. trib.al/xs0aKO1
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Iranian allies resort to mocking Trump in the propaganda battle over his war-of-choice against Iran. Trump makes mockery easy. trib.al/MCoaTbz
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As negotiations with Iran seem stalemated, the self-styled Master Negotiator Trump appears far from a deal that would improve on the Obama accord that he inadvisably ripped up, allowing Iran to move much closer to being able to produce a nuclear weapon. trib.al/utWbXWk
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Because Trump insisted that Ukraine hand its Donbas region to Putin, including parts that Russia has never been able to occupy in more than a decade of trying, the Ukrainians are toying with renaming it “Donnyland” to appeal to Trump’s insatiable vanity. trib.al/k87iDtU
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As Trump aids and abets Israel's genocide, apartheid, and aggression, he is now denying green cards to immigrants who had the decency to criticize or protest against Israel's criminality. trib.al/aTB0utZ
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"Europe’s populist right once saw Trump as its patron saint. But Greenland, Iran and Trump’s general contempt for Europe have made Trump politically toxic across the political spectrum in Europe." trib.al/g9ziKPi
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As Israel continues to bomb, Lebanese have a hard time figuring out where the supposed ceasefire is. trib.al/fVDVFOG
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To fight impunity for Israeli war crimes, Lebanon should join the International Criminal Court. Hezbollah's fear of justice for its own war crimes is not a good enough reason to avoid acting. trib.al/jZD7O4x
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The British home minister is so determined to deport immigrants that she's proposing to send some Afghans back to the Taliban. Not even Trump has been that callous. trib.al/X0Yikn9
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The Israeli government has gotten away with the mass destruction of Gaza, all aided and abetting by the US government, so it is replicating that war-crime strategy in southern Lebanon. x.com/JDiamond1/stat…
Jeremy Diamond@JDiamond1

Israel is exporting its Gaza model to Lebanon. Demolition by demolition, the Israeli military is changing the face of southern Lebanon, razing towns and villages to create a buffer zone. Israeli officials say it’s necessary to protect its residents from Hezbollah threats.

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The dictatorial Saudi crown prince forcibly displaced entire communities to make room for his hugely expensive, futuristic Neom project which appears unlikely ever to happen. trib.al/JLK4BOP
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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez rightly scoffs at the idea that Spain would be suspended from NATO for refusing to join Trump's illegal war of aggression against Iran. NATO was meant to counter aggression, not join it. x.com/AJEnglish/stat…
Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has responded to reports that the US may suspend Spain from NATO over its opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran, saying Spain has upheld its NATO obligations and that the conflict is illegal.

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The British government is closing a unit that monitors Israeli violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza. Ostensibly that is because of budget cuts, but it also helps to avoid official recording of inconvenient information. x.com/AJEnglish/stat…
Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish

The UK’s Foreign Office has closed a unit that tracked potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza. The International Humanitarian Law Cell was closed due to budget cuts, according to reports in the Guardian. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh reports from London.

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"Israel’s relentless pursuit of 'total victory' has entangled it in an unwinnable war with Iran, eroding legitimacy abroad and deepening moral decay within." trib.al/aRaxejc
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Almost four years since a peace agreement signed between the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Ethiopian government, hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans are still displaced and cannot return to their homes. trib.al/JEXuazl
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The European Union-Israel Association Agreement is conditioned on respect for human rights, but despite Israel's genocide in Gaza, apartheid in occupied Palestinian territory, and war crimes in Iran and Lebanon, the EU still hasn't suspended the accord. x.com/euronews/statu…
euronews@euronews

Several EU countries accuse Israel to be in breach of its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement. But the proposal made to suspend the agreement was not approved on Tuesday. This week’s episode of #BrusselsMyLove the podcast explores this and more.

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In the last month, 16 men – eight political prisoners and eight protesters – have been hanged in Iran. There was a brief hiatus in the state killings when Trump and Netanyahu’s war began on 28 February but something changed after 18 March. trib.al/VTcRBYJ
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The long memory of justice: a Syrian former regime official suspected of leading a notorious massacre of civilians – and who became one of the country’s most-wanted fugitives after the fall of Bashar al-Assad – has been arrested by Syrian security forces. trib.al/rQ6Hd1q
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