Righting wrongs: an interview with Ken Roth
Sab 12 aprile 2025
12:35 - 13:00
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Ken Roth changed the face of modern human rights reporting during his tenure as executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW). His leadership and courage in the field of war reporting and documentation of atrocities has been an inspiration for generations of journalists who have integrated HRW reports into their journalism. HRW field methodology can also be used by journalists investigating atrocities.
For reporters working in the human rights field today, how best to operate in a world that is seeing a reduction in human rights? With the rise of right-wing governments in the US, Israel, Romania, Hungary, El Salvador, Argentina, Holland, how do we up our reporting skills in the face of increasing threats to democracy?
Ken Roth will be interviewed by Janine di Giovanni.
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Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine that documents atrocities and helps build cases for international mechanisms. She is also the Tom and Andi Bernstein Visiting Fellow for Human Rights at Yale Law School, Schell Center for Human Rights. She is also an award-winning war reporter and the author of nine books as well as an academic specializing in human rights. Previously, she ran a similar initiative for the UN Democracy Fund in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. She is currently a Non Resident Fellow at Yale Law School Schell Center for Human Rights. In 2021-2022 she was Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos SNF Agora Institute, leading initiatives on transitional justice. From 2018 to 2022, she was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, teaching human rights. She is also a Global Affairs columnist at Foreign Policy and The National in Dubai. She has won more than a do...
Ken Roth
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).