On April 2\, at 12:15 pm EST\, join us for the book launch of “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Batt ling Abusive Governments” in which Kenneth Roth presents his reflections on a lifetime spent in the struggle for human rights.
In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth\, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff o f more than 500\, conducting investigations in 100 countries to uncover abu ses—and pressuring offending governments to stop them. Roth has grappled wi th the worst of humanity\, taken on the biggest villains of our time\, and persuaded leaders from around the globe to stand up to their repressive cou nterparts.
The son of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany just before the war began\, Roth grew up knowing full well how inhumane governments could be. He has traveled the world to meet cruelty and injustice on its home turf: h e arrived in Rwanda shortly after the Genocide\; scrutinized the impact of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait\; investigated and condemned Israel’s mistreatm ent of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government’ s persecution of Uyghur Muslims\, to bring Myanmar’s officials to justice a fter the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims\, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine\, even to reign in the U.S. government. Roth’s many innovations and strategies included the deployment of a concept as old as mankind—the p owerful tool of “shaming”—and here he illustrates its surprising effectiven ess against evildoers.
This is a story of wins\, losses\, and ongoin g battles in the ceaseless fight to rend the moral arc from the hands of in justice and bend it toward good. The event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law S chool’s HRP\, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World\, the Harv ard Human Rights Journal\, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.
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