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Craig Mokhiber. Craig Gerard Mokhiber (born in 1960) is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), four ...
Golriz Ghahraman ( Persian: گلریز قهرمان; born 1981) is a former New Zealand politician, lawyer and writer. The former United Nations lawyer was a child asylum seeker, and became the first refugee elected to New Zealand's Parliament. [ 1] Ghahraman was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party from 2017 ...
Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice ...
Human rights lawyer. Gissou Nia is a human rights lawyer and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she serves as director of the Strategic Litigation Project, which focuses on accountability and prevention for human rights violations, terrorism, atrocities, and corruption . Nia began her career at The Hague, where she worked to prosecute ...
Gary Alan Haugen (born April 16, 1963) [1] is an American attorney who is the Founder, CEO, and former President of International Justice Mission, a global organization that protects the poor from violence throughout the developing world. International Justice Mission partners with local authorities to rescue victims of violence, bring ...
Yale University ( JD) Known for. Executive director of Human Rights Watch. Spouse. Annie Sparrow. . ( m. 2011) . Kenneth Roth (born September 23, 1955) is an American attorney, human rights activist, and writer. He was the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) from 1993 to 2022.
Hillel C. Neuer (born 1969/1970) [1] is a Canadian-born international lawyer, [2] writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Human Rights Law Network ( HRLN) is an Indian non-profit organisation founded in 1989 to protect the fundamental human rights and civil liberties of the most marginalised and vulnerable members of society. Working on the intersection of law, advocacy, policy, and education, HRLN is organised as a collective of lawyers and social activists ...