Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now visiting professor, Princeton University, SPIA. My new book, "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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1 Mar 2025
This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Because the cowardly Republicans in Congress keep bowing to the whims of Trump, they can't avoid political responsibility for his disastrous economic policies. trib.al/p5x9yWL
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Trump's ambassador to India has pleased Indian officials by emphasizing commerce and staying silent about Modi's "rollback of democracy and human rights." trib.al/9w9b7Gg
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The inflationary consequences of Trump's counterproductive war of choice with Iran is losing Trump his white working class base. trib.al/KcXmCBO
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Occupation is an act of war, but Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said that, in the event of a deal with Iran, Israel would not withdraw from territory it occupies in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. That is consistent with Netanyahu's forever-war strategy. trib.al/VsfVy7B
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"Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting Trump’s handling of the economy," with "an extraordinary swing on that issue among white voters without college degrees between his first midterm election and now,” from 30% to -30%. trib.al/JuHRVbo
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In the Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, military rulers are increasingly clamping down on press freedom and freedom of expression. Many journalists, bloggers and activists have been forced into exile. trib.al/gZtjDtE
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Trump & Netanyahu went to war in Iran seeking regime change. There has been regime change, but not the kind they wanted. The Islamic Republic "is now less a theocracy and more a military junta dominated by the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps." trib.al/njifx2U
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The Trump administration has deported an Iranian pro-democracy activist to the Central African Republic, a "super dangerous" transfer to a country with which the activist has no connection. trib.al/iqNIaLf
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The International Labour Organization has agreed to adopt the first binding employment standards for gig workers in sectors such as ride-hailing and food delivery, potentially giving them rights on pay, safety and social benefits. trib.al/xM7UNrA
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Before the counterproductive war of choice, Iran “offered Trump’s envoys in Geneva a better deal than it is currently offering in the nuclear negotiations with the United States. A newly emboldened Iran is likely to press harder for its other demands." trib.al/qRKHVgX
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Netanyahu wanted regime change in Iran. Instead, this war of choice, joined naively by Trump, has produced regime hardening. trib.al/NjEkyr8
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Why was the leader of Tren de Aragua summarily executed rather than arrested and prosecuted? Is this another Trump murder? trib.al/vVUzajw
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The surge in energy prices caused by Trump's war of choice with Iran has wiped out a year and a half of wage gains for the average American worker. trib.al/nKYxqZC
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Iranian negotiators are reportedly dealing with Trump as if he is a psychiatric patient. Understandably. x.com/DropSiteNews/status/20…
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⭕️ Jeremy Scahill on what Iranian sources told him about dealing with President Trump: “‘We’ve had senior psychologists work up a psychological profile of what they think is going on with Trump’s brain. And we started to cater our messages by running them past senior psychologists before delivering them to Trump.’ And they said that ‘we then started to see some progress.’ They almost talked about like a clinical sense, like they’re dealing with a patient.”
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Because of his disastrous invasion of Ukraine, "Putin is losing his grip on Russia. His every move to preserve power accelerates decay, writes a former senior official in the Russian government." trib.al/bFyfBqB
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With Trump distracted by his war of choice with Iran, his peace plan for Gaza is going nowhere. Israel keeps seizing more land and now controls 64% of the territory, packing Palestinians into a smaller area with abysmal conditions. trib.al/chXSzkE
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Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a U.N. inquiry said. trib.al/uV9n7Tf
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Against all the evidence, the United Arab Emirates still pretends that it isn't sending arms and mercenaries to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan as they commit genocide. trib.al/i2SeANf
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The investment of Trump's son-in-law in a proposed 10,000-bed resort near a protected wildlife area that’s home to flamingos, turtles and one of Europe’s most pristine river deltas ignited Albania's biggest popular protests in recent history. trib.al/gUjGf0L
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Palestinian and Israeli civil society groups meeting have urged G7 leaders to act at their summit next week to save the narrowing chances of a two-state solution. trib.al/8T2eNk0
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