Human Rights Watch - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Human Rights Watch Index / Organizations Transcripts Tawakkol Karman ...to him. And also Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch , et cetera. But the most importan... Hadi Pir ...the State Department, he had been at Human Rights Watch , I think. It made me want to as... Kenneth Roth ...Mr. Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch , a position he has held since 1993. H... ...he has held since 1993. He joined Human Rights Watch in 1987 and before that served as ... ...in Washington, DC. While at Human Rights Watch , he has conducted numerous huma... ...rights movement and organizations like Human Rights Watch have changed over the long time wit... ...Just broadly speaking, how had you seen Human Rights Watch and the movement, and also it... ...in that time? When I started at Human Rights Watch there must have been twenty employee... ...just one second, but I wanted to ask— Human Rights Watch is not a political organization, s... ...were any early interactions between Human Rights Watch and the Obama administration, to get ... ...between an organization like Human Rights Watch and the Obama administration. I... ...What were the avenues through which Human Rights Watch was able to engage with th... ...conversation is really handled by the Human Rights Watch Washington staff. I personally would b... ...you have somebody who used to work for Human Rights Watch , those connections never fade. Someon... ...an argument about Israel. I should say, Human Rights Watch was very involved in the transitio... ...to discuss, either in terms of Human Rights Watch 's advocacy or just the historica... ...that was the infamous red line—the Human Rights Watch never advocated military interventio... ...after 2011, 2012. This was something Human Rights Watch was writing a lot about. I just want t... ...seen anything like this in your time at Human Rights Watch . And the extent to which th... ...its own policies at home. And I know Human Rights Watch was at the time writing about Obama'... ...asked about is the global dimensions of Human Rights Watch 's work during this time. This was ... ...is in many ways the first priority of Human Rights Watch , because we don't pretend that we hav... ...threat. Indeed, if you ask how did Human Rights Watch change, the Bush administration reall... ...if Hillary Clinton didn't know. We at Human Rights Watch were very outspoken about this. But sh... ...through—I mean, I've read some of the Human Rights Watch writing about Obama's record on Afric... ...because during this time I know Human Rights Watch was involved in Indonesia in attemptin... ...you could just say a little bit about Human Rights Watch 's engagement with the administratio... Show more... Naureen Shah ...intertwined. But then, working at Human Rights Watch , that happened really just because... ...chose the issue that I would work on at Human Rights Watch . So I didn't actually think tha... ...did. I was able to come back from Human Rights Watch and start a job at Columbia, actually... ... And then, while I was working at Human Rights Watch , and I was a fellow working abroad, ... ...to ask about that project you did for Human Rights Watch in India. Was there an outcome o... ...have our report from Amnesty, and then Human Rights Watch said, “Actually, we have been doin... ...exceptional it was to have Amnesty and Human Rights Watch saying, “We're going to publish th... ...have to be really strong as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch . But even after the report came out... ...me at Amnesty and my counterpart at Human Rights Watch —we didn't want it to be a progressive... ...when I was at Columbia—it was Columbian Human Rights Watch , a report on domestic terrorism... Show more... John Podesta ...[American Civil Liberties Union] to Human Rights Watch to CAP. I met with them and I said ... ...was the head of, or a senior person at Human Rights Watch , I think. So we kept him out of th... Dan Feldman ...reports from Amnesty [International], Human Rights Watch , I think, United Nations in 2014. Whe... Related Topics go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the East Wing East Wing