Kenneth RothVerified account

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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

New York
hrw.org
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.)

    2 replies 11 retweets 10 likes
  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?

    7 replies 8 retweets 9 likes
  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.

    3 replies 16 retweets 36 likes
  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.

    16 retweets 21 likes
  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.

    57 replies 42 retweets 64 likes
  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. 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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  9. 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."

    8 replies 36 retweets 70 likes
  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Jul 28

    Trump says immigrants are a threat to public safety. A comparison of the United States and Canada suggests the opposite.

    1 reply 52 retweets 111 likes
  14. Jul 28

    Beyond being a disaster for people seeking safety, Trump’s concocted claim that violent and dangerous Guatemala is “safe” for asylum seekers is pushing the country into a constitutional crisis.

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  15. Jul 28

    Brazil’s Pres Bolsonaro is tolerating a growing number of violent land invasions by loggers and miners. This contributes to accelerating deforestation and aggravates climate change.

    2 replies 29 retweets 25 likes
  16. Jul 28

    Rejecting Pres Erdogan’s attempt to silence academic critics, Turkey’s top court rules that it’s not “disseminating terrorist propaganda” for 10 to sign a petition calling for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the country’s mainly Kurdish southeast.

    5 replies 12 retweets 29 likes
  17. Jul 28

    As Burundi's Pres Nkurunziza angles for a fourth term, a campaign against opponents of the ruling party is building, with people killed, harassed, and "disappeared."

    12 replies 28 retweets 23 likes
  18. Jul 28

    Changing leadership of Congo’s Ebola effort won’t suffice if not accompanied by a new approach, meaning more attention to community health needs (to secure community cooperation fighting Ebola) rather than focusing solely on international fears of Ebola.

    2 replies 9 retweets 8 likes
  19. Jul 27

    \UN Secretary-General Guterres reports that "the highest number of Palestinian children had been killed or injured last year since 2014, mainly by Israeli forces."

    57 replies 51 retweets 41 likes
  20. Jul 27

    As the media outrage showed, Israel's effort to deport 's representative is an attack on mainstream human rights advocacy. The Netanyahu government should use the court's sudden, unusual postponement to rethink its transparent censorship plans.

    7 replies 41 retweets 73 likes

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