Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Rothis an American attorney who has been the executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993...
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The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist and second by public officials.
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These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.
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Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice. First by the perpetrators who raped them, and then by officials who ignore them, insult them and deny them a legal abortion.
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Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks
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There had been tremendous progress toward a consensus in creating a human rights council. That consensus has now been damaged because Bolton picked up the pages of the draft document and threw them into the air.
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On pain of imprisonment, Libyans are not allowed to criticize the government, its political system, or its leader.
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should be focused on the illegality of these prisons, not the revelation of the illegality.
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Moral squeamishness shouldn't stand in the way of finding solutions to this terrible crisis.
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When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.
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The reason highly abusive governments flock to the commission is to prevent condemnation of themselves and their kind, and most of the time they succeed. If you're a thug, you want to be on the committee that tries to condemn thugs.
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There has been a significant backsliding on human rights and we are seeing that principally in terms of increasing restrictions on what it's possible to say in the press -- certainly what it's possible to say on the Internet.
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We call on all countries to pledge not to vote for governments that systematically repress their people.
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We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.
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It's a right that is broadly supported by the Mexican people, but it is a right that is rarely respected in practice.