Aryeh Neier
Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author of The International Human Rights Movement: A History.
Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author of The International Human Rights Movement: A History.
Until this month, US President Donald Trump and his advisers had left the world guessing as to whether his admiration for authoritarian leaders would actually translate into US foreign policy. But Sec… read more
South African President Jacob Zuma’s decision to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court seems to be motivated by domestic politics and personal pride. It is legally questionable, a… read more
Since taking office and launching a "war on drugs" in early July, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been cheer-leading the extrajudicial killings of alleged drug users by police officers and vi… read more
The announcement that US President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. While Obama will not apologize for America’s 1945 nuclear attack, th… read more
The recent conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia of Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian Serb leader, for crimes against humanity and genocide filled many with a … read more
Even if it is not possible at the moment to create a war crimes tribunal for Syria, a more limited form of accountability can be sought. The names of those responsible for war crimes and human rights … read more
Most of those who devote themselves to safeguarding human rights worldwide would agree that this is a very bad time. Has the trend toward greater international protection of human rights, which began … read more
November 17 is a Czech national holiday, marking the start of the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, which ended more than four decades of communist rule and propelled the country’s best-known proponent of … read more
A decade ago, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the “responsibility to protect” populations subject to mass atrocity crimes. Whether or not the decision not to intervene militarily in Syria … read more
