Kenneth Roth
@KenRoth
Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now visiting professor, Princeton SPIA. My book "Righting Wrongs" just published by Knopf.
This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739898/r…
It is important that voluntary assisted suicide for the terminally ill not be allowed to morph into a way for the state to offload expensive medical patients or even pensioners. trib.al/uemWMQY
Why does Putin consider Ukraine "existential"? 1. Its democracy reminds Russians of what they don't have. 2. His invasion has been such a disaster in terms of Russian lives lost that he risks being overthrown is it is obvious he got nothing for it. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached astonishing levels of desperation with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, reports @WFP. A quarter face famine-like conditions. ~100,000 women and children suffer severe acute malnutrition. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…
The decision by Kazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from 16 journalists for the Kazakh service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a blatant attack on independent media. hrw.org/news/2025/07/2…
29 governments: "The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths." Israel's "aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians." gov.uk/government/new…
How can Israel possibly justify such atrocities? That they keep happening with impunity encourages other Israeli soldiers to replicate them. x.com/tparsi/status/…
Palestinian man walks calmly in Hebron with his arms raised. The Israeli soldiers shoots him in the back. This happens all the time for a simple reason: The impunity the US & Europe provide Israel not only enables this, it encourages the steady increase of Israeli war crimes.
A famine expert on Gaza: "There is no case since WWII of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled." He notes the Israeli judge on the International Court of Justice agreed with the order to provide humanitarian aid. that Israel ignored. x.com/SaulStaniforth…
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Palestinians are collapsing in Gaza's streets from the Israeli-imposed starvation campaign: "A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations." dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-star…
Three Palestinian women from Gaza embody the daily struggles of mothers exhausted by war, hunger and displacement as the nearly two-year-long conflict continues amid Israel's genocide. trib.al/0PkjiZF
Israel's genocide in Gaza: “We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said. “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.” news.un.org/en/story/2025/…
"About two-thirds of U.S. adults expect the new tax law will help the rich....Most — about 6 in 10 — think it will do more to hurt than help low-income people. About half say it will do more harm than good for middle-class people and people like them." apnews.com/article/trump-…
Under Trump, migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs.” trib.al/zCP3jyW
Why does Beijing back Putin as he kills Ukrainian civilians? "China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, privately told European Union officials in Brussels that it was not in Beijing’s interests for the war to end because it might shift U.S. attention toward Asia." trib.al/jPBLgIX
The children of an elderly British couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged them to release the pair before they “die in custody”. Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Appropriately strong words from Pope Leo: He calls for an end to Israel's "barbarity" in Gaza. x.com/VaticanNews/st…
Pope Leo calls for an end to 'barbarity' in Gaza.
Europe complains that “Beijing’s purchases of Russian oil and its supplying of dual-use technologies has enabled the Kremlin to prolong its war in Ukraine. China claims neutrality over the conflict, a position that has been met with deep skepticism.” trib.al/e1Fij6U
Since May, about 700 hungry Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from Israeli-established aid sites, according to U.N. data. "Eyewitnesses and Gaza health officials have repeatedly accused Israeli forces of shooting into crowds." trib.al/tbw9fdG
The Israeli military's genocidal callousness: "At least 32 people were reported killed on Saturday, and more than 60 a day later, adding to the mounting death toll of Gazans who have lost their lives trying to get food." trib.al/TgOqbVW
Israel’s latest shooting of dozens of hungry Palestinians took place “despite assurances from Israeli authorities…that armed forces will not be present nor engage at any stage along humanitarian convoy routes.” That turned out to be a very deadly lie. trib.al/a6cCWkY
25 @WFP trucks crossing into Gaza “encountered large crowds of civilians anxiously waiting to access desperately needed food supplies." It said: “As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers & other gunfire." trib.al/1DIOr4H