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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

New York
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Joined December 2008
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  1. 3 hours ago

    Recognizing the enormous stakes--China's efforts to undermine human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in their territory--Hong Kong protesters are determined not to "give up."

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Trump's coerced migration "deal" with Guatemala makes that country by far the most violent and dangerous one ever considered "safe" for asylum seekers. (It obviously isn't, which is why Trump's deal is so blatantly illegal.)

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Airbnb said it wouldn't do business with Israel's illegal settlements but it would continue doing business in Israel. Israel attacked it (and force it to reverse its position) by saying there's no difference between the two. Is that really Israel's view?

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  4. 7 hours ago

    The main argument against decriminalizing sex work is that it supposedly will increase sex trafficking. In fact, it does the opposite, by making sex work more visible and above-ground.

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Brazil's new far-right Pres Bolsonaro shows how repression fuels climate change, as he cuts back on protection against illegal logging, ranching and mining, hastening destruction of the carbon-sink Amazon forests.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    Since hardly anyone is boycotting Israel, why is Israel so worried about BDS? Because it's turning a generation against Israel by highlighting its systematic discrimination against Palestinians.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    China just quietly announced it sentenced human rights activist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison. He was imprisoned twice before for a total 8 years. He has several serious health conditions. His mother was under house arrest to stop her from speaking out.

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  8. 12 hours ago

    Investigation is sought into why United Arab Emirates authorities forced Alia Abdulnoor to die in prison with inadequate medical care for her breast cancer.

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Boko Haram marks its ten-year anniversary by attacking a funeral in Nigeria and killing 65 people. About all one can say about this horrific massacre is that it's characteristic of this brutal and lawless force.

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  10. 14 hours ago

    Fears mount of a Singapore "bloodbath" of 13 executions including of foreigners. Singapore's death penalty extends far beyond murder convicts (the only "permitted" offense under human rights law) to include non-violent drug offenses as well.

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  11. 15 hours ago

    For the European Union it was a crisis in 2015 when one million refugees arrived representing a mere 0.2% of its population. “This year Canada intends to accept 330,000 newcomers, nearly 1% of its population."

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has no allergies but suddenly develops a "severe allergic reaction" in Russian custody. Certainly Putin's government, having used Novichok nerve agent to try to kill an opponent, wouldn't use chemicals on Navalny.

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  13. 17 hours ago

    Even US concedes "confessions" during 3-1/2 years of secret CIA custody complete with torture aren't voluntary. But few buy its claim that confessions then secured by a Guantanamo "clean" team are voluntary either, as if no implicit threat of more torture.

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  14. 18 hours ago

    Brazil’s Pres Bolsonaro campaigned against corruption. Now his administration is plagued by it.

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  15. 20 hours ago

    For Moscow elections Putin’s United Russia party “has become so toxic that none of the pro-government candidates dared to run on its ticket, opting instead to run as ‘independents.’” When authorities disqualified challengers, thousands took to the streets.

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  16. 21 hours ago

    An embrace of liberal democratic values and of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters appears to be a winning electoral formula for Taiwan’s Pres Tsai Ing-wen.

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  17. 22 hours ago

    In Xinjiang, China is perfecting a way to eradicate Muslim identity, detaining one million Muslims for "re-education" while subjecting the rest to an extraordinarily intrusive surveillance state. Where are the protests from Muslim nations?

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  18. 23 hours ago

    In China’s Xinjiang, "Mosques have been shut. Men are forbidden to grow beards, women may not wear head coverings and children are barred from prayers.” One million Muslims are detained. Yet most Muslim governments prefer Chinese money to defending Islam.

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  19. Jul 28

    Despite Putin’s and Xi’s common distaste for human rights, few Chinese invest in Russia because “the Russian version of state capitalism is a rent-seeking...licence for the clique that surrounds [Putin] to steal freely from the national coffers.”

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  20. Jul 28

    In Hong Kong, facial-recognition technology is being used not only by the police to identify protesters but also by protesters to identify abusive police.

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