Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has held the position since 1993.

Roth was born to a family of German refugees of the Third Reich. He studied at Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and at Yale Law School, where he obtained a Juris Doctor.

He worked as a private litigator, before working as a federal prosecutor for the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He also investigated the Iran-Contra affair.

Roth started working on Human Rights in 1981, following the declaration of martial law in Poland. He was later interested in the Haiti regime.

Roth held the position of deputy director of Human Rights Watch between 1987 and 1993, abd has been executive director since 1993.

External links

* [http://china.hrw.org/profile/kenneth_roth Biograph of Kenneth Roth] , official webiste of Human Rights Watch.


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