Kenneth Roth

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…

The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, announced she was suspending Italy’s defense agreement with Israel. It's hardly "defense" when Israel is bombing left and right.  trib.al/zV0QOIj

Kuwait has detained award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has not been seen or heard from since March 2 while visiting family in Kuwait. He was charged with vague offenses used to silence independent journalists. trib.al/quY8CXh

The Trump administration is still summarily executing drug suspects in the eastern Pacific rather than arresting and prosecuting them. These are murders. trib.al/eJbkSJ1

Israeli attacks on four oil depots around Tehran on March 7 may cause long-term health and environmental harm for civilians in the vicinity. Israeli forces don’t appear to have factored in that foreseeable harm, making these attacks likely war crimes. trib.al/EAG8Mdp

The United Arab Emirates has thrived on the backs of migrants workers, but with the economy now stalled because of the US-Israeli war with Iran, the UAE is leaving those workers in the lurch with little regard for their well-being. trib.al/VktZdaL

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese describes her "rollercoaster" of a life after Trump imposed financial sanctions on her because she had the audacity to accurately call out Israel's genocide in Gaza and apartheid in Palestinian occupied territory. trib.al/awIKHno

You know that Israeli conduct is over the top when even the normally quiet-diplomacy International Committee of the Red Cross publicly protests Israeli attacks on medical workers in Lebanon after a deadly strike on ​a Red Cross center on Monday trib.al/4ty8ONG

The reports of how small the divide is between the US and Iranian positions make the return to war all the more unjustifiable. It is time for Trump to reject Netanyahu's forever-war preferences and finally strike a deal, which he claims to be so good at. trib.al/BfyAFAI

Political opponents of the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being detained or disappearing. Senior members of the party of former president Joseph Kabila, who oppose the administration of President Félix Tshisekedi, have been targeted. trib.al/mJ6drnu

It would be an injustice for Germany to force Syrian refugees to return: 1. Syria remains in terrible economic shape with uncertain political leadership. 2. Many Syrians have built lives in Germany over a decade which it is unfair to force them to abandon. trib.al/58KQHi2

Hungary's Viktor Orban shows that autocrats can lose. They try to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, but voters see through their populist rhetoric and tire of their self-serving corruption. trib.al/Mh3C7Ee

Viktor Orban's "illiberal democracy," meant to keep him in power by tilting the electoral playing field in his favor, ended up fueling his hubris and facilitating the self-serving corruption that led to his electoral demise. trib.al/HP4Cp8d

Iranian photojournalist Artin Ghazanfari, a Baha'i detained since Jan. 19, has been held for over 80 days at Greater Tehran Prison with no bail, no consistent medication access and deteriorating health, according to sources close to his family. trib.al/bSvLwDu

To distinguish itself from its autocratic predecessor, Hungary’s new government should stop rule by decree and suspend the Sovereignty Protection Office which has investigated journalists, civil society groups, and academics receiving foreign funding. trib.al/8pD7Pqo

Trump discovers that has community and workplace raids aimed at deporting settled but undocumented immigrants are wildly unpopular. His ideological base still wants mass deportation, but that's not what the American people want, so Trump is backing off. trib.al/DKw4EJm

JD Vance was 0 for 2 on his big foreign policy assignments last week. His visit didn't salvage Viktor Orban's candidacy in Hungary or secure a nuclear deal with Iran. Sounds like a perfect Republican would-be president. trib.al/v461Eb1

It should be entirely possible to find a compromise between the Iranian offer of suspending nuclear enrichment for 5 years and the Trump proposal of 20. That is not a difference that justifies more war. trib.al/M7wSOPJ

In the Strait of Hormuz standoff, Trump calculates Iran will capitulate because it needs oil revenue. Iran is betting that, as midterms approach, Trump is more sensitive to the price of oil. Who will blink first? I wouldn’t count on it being the Iranians. trib.al/vcoEpLz

Why did JD Vance give such a negative press conference when it appears that a deal with Iran was entirely feasible. Did that reflect his diplomatic inexperience? His effort to pretend to be like Trump, always pretending to be about to return to bombing? trib.al/qEw7wIl

If the differences in the negotiations with Iran are down to how many years Iran would suspend nuclear enrichment, and what the preferred way is for getting rid of its highly enriched uranium, these are eminently bridgeable gaps, no reason for more war. trib.al/y31jWD4