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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"Suppression of language is a key part of Moscow’s drive to erase the Crimean Tatar identity as it seeks to colonize occupied Ukraine. Linguists are fighting back." trib.al/8GHXOBg
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Fifteen months after Trump vowed to end the war in Ukraine in a day, he seems to have given up trying because he refuses to put real pressure on his buddy Putin. trib.al/3ZKGSx0
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Trump is amplifying his crude "xenophobic rhetoric at a time when the administration’s efforts to restrict even legal immigration have left many Indian Americans and Chinese Americans worried about their place in American society." trib.al/RC31p4h
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Here is the "dangerous" 85-year-old widow whom Trump officials felt the urgent need to detain and deport. trib.al/OjYRrpE
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Defeating Trump's effort to suppress voting by requiring new types of identification didn't even need a Democratic filibuster in the Senate. "There aren’t 50 Republican votes for passage in the first place." trib.al/epujQRN
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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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