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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

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Joined December 2008
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  1. 17 minutes ago

    The medical forensic evidence corroborates Rohingya survivors' account of Myanmar security forces' massacre of 400 villagers of Chut Pyin: report.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Evidently wishing he didn't face an independent judiciary at home, Trump has remained silent as Poland undermines the independence of its judiciary. Polish Pres Duda visits Trump today.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Following the Douma chemical attack in Syria, there was a major increase—some 300 percent—in the creation of new Twitter accounts. At least 44 percent of them were disinformation accounts, almost certainly controlled by Russia. New report:

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Newly released archival evidence shows the US government bought into the Israeli government's deceptive claim of "terrorists" left behind to justify allowing to continue the 1982 massacres in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Rape was pervasive and widespread, leaving no doubt that sexual violence was used as a weapon against minorities: UN Fact-Finding Mission delivers its full report on the Myanmar army's atrocities against Rohingya Muslims to the UN Human Rights Council.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Another suspected Russian poisoning, this time of Pussy Riot's Pyotr Verzilov. He is flown to Germany for emergency treatment after suddenly losing his sight and ability to speak following a court appearance.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Kyrgyzstan is convicting hundreds for possessing videos, pamphlets & books that it has banned using dangerously overbroad definition of extremism, handing out to 3-to-10-year prison terms even when material not distributed or used to incite violence: .

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  8. 12 hours ago

    As Philippines Pres Duterte oversees the summary execution of 12,000+ drug suspects, an Israeli weapons manufacturer sees an investment opportunity.

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  9. 16 hours ago

    Guatemala's top court reverses Pres Jimmy Morales's effort to bar UN-backed anti-corruption head from the country (as a corruption investigation zeroes in on the president).

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  10. 17 hours ago

    As the criminal trial begins in Honduras of eight men accused in the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres, her family alleges a political cover-up of the higher-ups who ordered the murder.

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  11. 19 hours ago

    In an important step and global precedent, Pakistan's PM promises citizenship for 1.5M Afghan refugees who have made Pakistan their home, in some cases for decades.

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  12. 21 hours ago

    100 migrants in distress in Mediterranean lie in wait for at least six hours w/o rescue, as Italy and the EU discourage NGO assistance, and Libyan Coast Guard is at best slow. Even if rescued, Libya would return them to the horrors of trafficker detention.

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    22 hours ago

    REMINDER: Only 2-10% of sexual assault allegations are false -- the SAME rate as false allegations of other crimes. Yet because of toxic myths about "women who cried rape," we demand infinitely more of women who allege they were assaulted.

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  14. 22 hours ago

    Large German demonstration against deporting asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Iraq on the theory that they are supposedly "safe." You don't see many German politicians volunteering to vacation there, do you?

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  15. 24 hours ago

    The Saudi-led coalition keeps bombing and starving Yemeni civilians, while its self-investigation keeps exculpating the perpetrators, but at the UN Human Rights Council, the Saudis now have the audacity to claim that UN scrutiny should end.

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  16. Sep 17

    Today's hypocrisy award goes to Iran: As it arrests anti-government protesters and blocks Twitter altogether, it complains that Twitter is blocking pro-government voices.

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  17. Sep 17

    Myanmar's attack on these Reuters journalists--seven years in prison after they revealed the army's execution of ten Rohingya men--is an attack on truthful journalism, presided over by Aung San Suu Kyi and her government as it covers up army atrocities.

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  18. Sep 17

    While Venezuelans are fleeing the country for lack of food and medicine, senior officials are charged with raking in $2.3 billion in payoffs. That's what Maduro-style autocratic governance gets you.

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  19. Sep 17

    Why are Syrian refugees afraid to return home? Here's one example: Syrian intelligence forces are daily arresting civilians and ex humanitarian workers, including White Helmets volunteers, despite promises of safety when they surrendered to the government.

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    Sep 16

    Serving a 6-YEAR prison sentence for advocating for teacher’s rights, Esmail Abdi’s imprisonment is a reminder of Iran’s suffocating public sphere. and call for the immediate release of .

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