Kenneth Roth

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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 Katılım 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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The atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remain prevalent, but UN rights chief @Volker_Turk still hasn't funded the UN Commission of Inquiry to collect evidence. He cites a financial crisis but is funding a lot of work of far less importance. trib.al/ZVasuzO
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Why is International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan going on an exoneration tour when he knows that the procedure so fair, characterized by a lack of fact-finding rather than facts found in his favor, is anything but an exoneration. trib.al/p1K424k
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People are object to Trump's anti-immigrant vendetta even in Republican strongholds like Ohio as they object to the economic harm caused by deporting established members of their community. trib.al/wtUz4Kr
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Ekpar Asat illustrates the persecution of Uyghurs under Xi Jinping. He disappeared into China's prison system a decade ago (after visiting the United States) and was never allowed to emerge. Will Trump raise the Uyghurs when he meets Xi? Or just fawn? trib.al/lFVulrP
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The new Syrian authorities open the trial of Atef Najib, a former Assad official whose 2011 brutality against Arab Spring protesters in Daraa sparked the civil war. He tortured teenagers who spraypainted "Your turn is coming, doctor," a reference to Assad. trib.al/aIEbhhF
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The European Political Community president says it is “vital to strengthen Armenian democracy and fight external interference and disinformation,” but talks about only threats from Russia, not Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s own attacks on that democracy. trib.al/onbMhTX
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Russia is exploiting African men's desperation for jobs by luring them under false pretenses to fight in Ukraine where many of them are killed. trib.al/pKKasa8
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Canadian PM Mark Carney, speaking in Armenia, says Europe can rebuild a rules-based international order, but European governments are ignoring Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan's attack on the rules of democracy under the pretext of stopping Russian influence. trib.al/x2UdSHV
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It seems increasingly likely that Trump's pointless war-of-choice against Iran will result in "a settlement that will leave the [brutal, repressive Iranian] government intact and empowered, and a blustering American president humiliated." trib.al/j02Zua0
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Having cut a horrible deal with Trump giving him oversight of the university, @Columbia may be the worst campus in the United States for free speech, especially about Israel. It is threatening to discipline a student for distributing this legitimate flyer. trib.al/quwTJcC
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Trump's effective disassociation from NATO may encourage Putin to attack Europe before Europe can beef up its military forces. trib.al/P3RZMYN
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With the world’s attention focused on the war with Iran, extremist Israeli settlers "acting with seeming impunity have intensified their attacks on Palestinians across the Israeli-occupied West Bank.” Their violence is “emptying out entire villages." trib.al/FvRDNP5
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Russia is luring a growing number of African men to the "death zone" in Ukraine. "They are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. Some go as mercenaries, but many more are drawn unwittingly." trib.al/o6xVmcX
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Kaja Kallas says from Armenia that Europe is about not geography but "values and principles," yet European leaders are focusing on only the Russian threat as Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan undermines Armenia's democracy by attacking the political opposition. x.com/kajakallas/sta…
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas

Europe is not just about geography, it's also about the values and principles we share. That’s why we are glad to welcome Canada at the European Political Community meeting today to discuss common issues. We will be talking about connectivity, but also resilience to the threats we are all facing. My doorstep ↓

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Often lured with false promises of work in Russia, around 1,000 Kenyans have "gone to Russia and ended up in Ukraine so far. Only 30 of them have returned alive." trib.al/TB5J0wx
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The gullible Trump went to war in Iran surrounded by yes-men and easily bamboozled by the slick Netanyahu. Now, two months later, he "is confronting the complicated reality of a conflict that has proved costly, deeply unpopular and lacks a clear endgame." trib.al/GjTfD0J
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Rather than Iran and the US mutually lifting the blockades of the Strait of Hormuz -- which are acts of war in violation of the supposed ceasefire -- Trump threatens to use force to open the strait. trib.al/2KRDXmk
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has skillfully enlisted European governments to counter Russia's efforts to undermine Armenia's democracy as a diversion from his own efforts to undermine that democracy by suppressing the political opposition. trib.al/FngvVtk
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European governments are in Armenia today to prevent Russia from undermining a free and fair parliamentary election on June 7 but they are ignoring Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's own undermining of democracy by suppressing the political opposition. trib.al/kww3IkQ
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A strong transitional justice process is needed in Syria not only to address the mass atrocities under Assad but also to establish the rule of law today so the new authorities can turn the page on political violence. trib.al/Gq8xbUQ
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