Kenneth RothVerified account

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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

New York
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Joined December 2008
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  1. 16 minutes ago

    As Pres Bolsonaro glorifies the abusive military junta in Brazil, Uruguay's Pres Vázquez sacks military leaders for covering up abuses under military rule.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Trump's Bolton pulls the US out of UN bodies because they dare to examine US and Israeli misconduct, but then discovers that China gleefully fills the void.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    What does life look like under the corrupt, power-focused rule of an incompetent autocrat? Here's Venezuela's inflation rate under Maduro.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    More celebrities are asking, why spend money on expensive hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei when it's "putting money directly into the pockets of [the man] who choose to stone and whip to death [his] own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery.”

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is defiant, vowing more protests against Maduro's corruption, repression, and incompetence even as Maduro tries to lift Guaidó's parliamentary immunity, threatening arrest.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Venezuela's combination of severe food and medicine shortages along with the spread of disease has created a complex humanitarian emergency requiring a UN response, yet the government suppresses information and makes things worse.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    Another murder, in Peru, showing that being a rural environmentalist is one of the most dangerous professions around.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    Now is no time for platitudes or euphemisms. The problems are too vast and severe. At their summit with China, European Union leaders should press publicly and firmly for Xi Jinping to close down the mass detention centers for Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

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  9. 9 hours ago

    The power of a democratic alternation in power may soon be revealed.

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  10. 10 hours ago

    US Congress votes overwhelmingly to end support for the Saudi-led bombing and blockading of Yemeni civilians. But Trump, who shamefully is untroubled by dead civilians so long as US arms sales proceed, is likely to veto.

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  11. 10 hours ago

    Twenty-five years since the Rwandan genocide, the victims and survivors should remain at the forefront of our thoughts, but we should also take stock of the need to ensure accountability for all who directed horrific acts at that time, including the RPF.

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  12. 11 hours ago

    UN expert criticizes Facebook for fueling Myanmar violence against Rohingya Muslims. It "apologiz[es] after the fact rather than try to prevent it in the first place.” Why should Facebook rake in profits before it's ready to prevent its use for violence?

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  13. 12 hours ago

    A leader who is afraid of his people has to control even the content of soap operas: Egypt’s autocratic Pres Sisi. Needless to say, such leaders serve themselves, not their people.

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Because China's crackdown on Uighur Muslims has sometimes ensnared both parents of young children, the problem of "orphans" is growing.

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  15. 13 hours ago

    Chinese authorities are particularly attentive to any sign of religious belief among Uighur Muslims.

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  16. 13 hours ago

    The Chinese police pervasively checks the mobile phones of Uighur Muslims.

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  17. 13 hours ago

    How did China turn Xinjiang's Kashgar, a center for Uighur Muslims, into a prison? Pervasive checkpoints like this are one tool.

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  18. 14 hours ago

    “When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I go to Brussels, they take no notice.”—Rupert Murdoch on why he favors Brexit.

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  19. 15 hours ago

    While the British parliament debates Brexit endlessly, it is neglecting social justice as unremedied poverty deepens.

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  20. 17 hours ago

    Four Chinese activists spent nearly three years in prison for putting on commemorative liquor bottles a picture of "tank man," a symbol of resistance as the Chinese military crushed the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.

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