Kenneth Roth


Kenneth Roth is a visiting professor at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and was executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022. His forthcoming book, Righting Wrongs, includes two chapters on Syria.

Articles by Kenneth Roth
A child and a man wear oxygen masks in a makeshift clinical setting.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a meeting in Washington on July 25.
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan speaks during a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on July 13, 2023 in New York City.
A man waring scrubs and holding a book walks through a damaged room at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. A hole is seen in one wall and bedding, beds, and other equipment are tossed about the space.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the start of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, on May 15, 2017.
A silhouette of diplomats meeting in Belgrade on Dec. 3, 2015.
A World Food Programme convoy of trucks on their way to the Tigray region are seen near the village of Erebti, Ethiopia, on June 9.
Musician turned politician Bobi Wine (C) is joined by other activists on July 11, 2018 in Kampala, Uganda, during a demonstration to protest a controversial tax on the use of social media.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at Stanford University in Stanford, California, on July 24, 2018.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok flashes the victory sign during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Omar al-Bashir, in Khartoum on Dec. 25, 2019.
Venezuelan migrants walk along the border of Peru and Ecuador.
A participant holds a banner with photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in front of the presidential palace during a demonstration on Dec. 21, 2018.
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