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Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the worldâs leading international human rights organizations, which operates in some 100 countries. Before that, Roth was a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington.
A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world, meeting with dozens of heads of state and countless ministers. He is quoted widely in the media and has written hundreds of articles on a wide range of human rights issues, devoting special attention to the worldâs most dire situations, the conduct of war, the foreign policies of the major powers, the work of the United Nations, and the global contest between autocracy and democracy.
Rothâs first book, Righting Wrongs, was published by Knopf on 25 February 2025. It offers an insiderâs view of the strategies used by Human Rights Watch to put pressure on governments to respect human rights, drawing on his years of experience. The book can be ordered here (North America) or here (Europe).
A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world, meeting with dozens of heads of state and countless ministers. He is quoted widely in the media and has written hundreds of articles on a wide range of human rights issues, devoting special attention to the worldâs most dire situations, the conduct of war, the foreign policies of the major powers, the work of the United Nations, and the global contest between autocracy and democracy.
Rothâs first book, Righting Wrongs, was published by Knopf on 25 February 2025. It offers an insiderâs view of the strategies used by Human Rights Watch to put pressure on governments to respect human rights, drawing on his years of experience. The book can be ordered here (North America) or here (Europe).