Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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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…
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“There is no evidence that Trump is using this opportunity to push back on the Chinese government policies that hurt" American workers and businesses, such as Beijing's pervasive use of Uyghur forced labor to lower production costs. trib.al/Jxx06rZ
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The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections. trib.al/C9cng4w
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Trump fetted Xi Jinping but seems to have secured nothing in return, not even the release of any Chinese political prisoners. trib.al/ZQAmKzG
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Playing the gullible Trump: "There is little sign that China had made good on a promise made during Trump’s visit with Xi Jinping in Beijing earlier this year to sharply increase its purchases of American agriculture products." trib.al/SieSmOc
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This week, Trump barred American reporters because he labeled them a national security threat (that is, they reported critically about him) while welcoming Chinese reporters who are sycophants because they answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. trib.al/oNw3LSU
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Trump officials are using maintenance problems at the Kennedy Center as a pretext for a shutdown that is actually necessitated by the center’s financial and artistic decline under Trump after he took over its board & tried to put his name on the building. trib.al/Khx9mPe
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With big global challenges pending, Trump ignores them at the state dinner to show the guests what he really cares about -- his White House construction site. trib.al/CVbhHAI
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Xi Jinping didn't need to speak at the United Nations this week. As Trump retreats, China is trying to dominate the global body. trib.al/aqWum1d
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Netanyahu thinks Israel can get away with genocide and mass atrocities because Trump is protecting it. A group of nations, with the South African apartheid example in mind, is fighting back, unwilling to accept friends of the powerful evading justice. trib.al/mGazHo2
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An array of former government officials, human rights groups, bar associations, and legal experts have filed amicus briefs supporting a lawsuit challenging Trump’s sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and others assisting its work. trib.al/EWpw9PD
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The United Nations children's agency reported on Friday a rise in acute malnutrition among children in Yemen, including in the most severe cases, as fighting disrupts access to healthcare and treatment centers.
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Trump urged countries to leave the International Criminal Court immediately, calling it "evil" and "a rogue institution," but only a tiny Pacific island nation formerly known as Nauru has followed suit during the UN General Assembly this week.
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An apparent Ethiopian government airstrike on a residential compound in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on August 20, 2026, should be investigated as a possible war crime. The attack wounded 13 civilians, including seven children. trib.al/AFQRG2v
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Even after adjusting its figures, the Committee to Project Journalists finds that Israeli forces were still responsible for “by far the majority of killings of journalists and media workers worldwide since 2023.” trib.al/Z4Vr5xo
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Thirty-eight international civil society organizations have backed a lawsuit challenging Trump's sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court, arguing that the measures impede human rights work and victims’ access to international justice. trib.al/tiRD8Bf
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Xi Jinping's terms for cooperation with the United States seem to be that Trump abandons Taiwan and ignores the repression by which the Chinese Communist Party retains power. The sad thing is, Trump could agree to that. trib.al/ZkQsD3X
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In the global contest between democracy and autocracy, Trump's every move these days seems to it him on the side of the autocrats. trib.al/gG2ZhHE
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Trump’s immigration crackdown, while quieter, has actually become more intense. trib.al/XlJPaah
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Trump's ICE and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing ill-conceived plans to rapidly increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement, congressional investigators warned. trib.al/n4ncyJq
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Iran thinks it can reach a deal with Trump but worries that Netanyahu will sabotage it over the demand that Israel stop its war in Lebanon. trib.al/sIKjeFZ
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