Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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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…
Thanks to Trump, the United States sticks out as the only major economy where planet-warming pollution increased dramatically last year, according to a new report by U.N. scientists. trib.al/1Z3wg6Q
Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court won’t take effect for 6 months, but their effect is already being felt. The European Union should act now to protect the court, including by invoking its blocking statute to negate them in Europe. trib.al/lidarFL
Elon Musk's XAI was the only major tech company not to cooperate with Democracy Works, a nonpartisan organization that is working this year with the major chatbot developers to share verified election information. trib.al/7P1aryR
The Emirati-Saudi rivalry is spurring bloodshed on a horrific scale in a broad swathe of northeastern Africa. trib.al/u3u2gmW
Uganda’s obligation to investigate the brutal killing of a Rwandan dissident requires examining all evidence that points to a possible politically motivated killing, including one ordered by Rwandan president Paul Kagame's government. trib.al/PO2MDF6
Congress kept holding hearings but then doing nothing to regulate Big Tech, so the courts are beginning to fill the breach. trib.al/8FxUulW
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Very well reported story on how new Starbucks in Urumchi stands on property confiscated from a private Uyghur company during mass internment / incarceration campaign a few years ago. Taken and sold at auction to a single state company bidder. kozet.org/starbucks-urumqi-s…
Today’s Venezuela is what you get when you combine one corrupt kleptocracy (the remnants of the Maduro government) with another (the Trump administration). trib.al/MQwlqHs
Netanyahu is back to advocating regime change in Iran. That's how he got Trump into this pointless war of choice. It didn't work out so well. trib.al/dG7POKG
Because the naive Trump is so easily manipulated by his love of flattery and his adoration of autocrats, "Putin has never been so close to his goal of normalizing relations with Washington without having to make any compromises on Ukraine." trib.al/vfbXzi3
A federal judge orders Trump’s department of homeland security not to conduct stops in search of supposed voter fraud because it “appeared likely to hamper voter engagement and registration,” which was probably the intent. trib.al/cK65iUv
The naive Trump thinks that making business deals with Putin will show him the benefits of making peace with Ukraine. In fact, it is only reinforcing Putin's intransigence. Why make peace when he can count on Trump to force Ukraine to capitulate? trib.al/KGXgmPb
70 percent of young American voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way. That’s 15 points higher than before the 2024 election, and comparable to the 2008 election, when a youth wave helped Barack Obama to victory. trib.al/JnTRNnL
After the midterms, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC says it will stop candidate endorsements and contributions. AIPAC's defense of Israel despite its genocide, apartheid, and endless occupation has become too toxic. Candidates don't want its backing. trib.al/SNFUFfD
Forever-war Netanyahu may try to persuade Trump to attack Iran yet again so even if Netanyahu loses Israel's election later this month, which seems likely, he can press his opponents to let him stay on as a "wartime" prime minister. trib.al/bA8tNrF
The United Arab Emirates has nominated Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Minister of State, as a candidate for UN Secretary-General. She is likely to be asked why her government has been sending arms and mercenaries to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. trib.al/JNmlC6E
The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity. trib.al/RZAggov
An investigation suggests that the "American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners." trib.al/nIIyaow
An Indian court has ordered the release of two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement who were jailed last week amid a mounting state crackdown on youth-led protests. trib.al/4H3NpCP
Macron seems to say that Trump’s comments are “stupid” for blaming France’s riots on “migrants, jihadists and communists.” trib.al/C4um6wo
