Topic: Kenneth Roth
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Thousands of civilians were killed in the last few months of the war as a result of grave violations of international law by both government and LTTE forces
Human Rights Watch declines invitation Oct 14, 2010
Instead of protecting Mandera's residents, the military and police systematically beat and tortured them
Rights report lists Kenyan forces' abuse Jun 29, 2009
This is not a question of a few bad apples disobeying orders
Rights report lists Kenyan forces' abuse Jun 29, 2009
Instead of protecting Mandera's residents, the military and police systematically beat and tortured them
Rights report lists Kenyan forces' abuse Jun 29, 2009
In an increasingly multi-polar world, we must ensure that Human Rights Watch's message resonates in the most influential capitals around the globe. Ending serious abuses requires generating pressure from any government with clout, including emerging powers in the global South
Billionaire Soros gives NGO $100 million Sep 07, 2010
Kenneth Roth is an American attorney and has been the executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993.
Kenneth Roth, a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, has said he was drawn to human rights causes through his father's experience of fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938. His father would keep his three young sons quiet as he cut their hair by telling tales of their grandfather’s butcher shop in Frankfurt, Germany. As they grew older, he told them about living under the Nazis as a young boy and fleeing Germany in July 1938.
Jimmy Carter’s introduction of human rights as an element of US foreign policy in the late 1970s further inspired Roth to take on human rights as a vocation.
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