Human Rights, Democracy, Populism, & Domestic Politics, Global Governance, International Law Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch talks spotlighting governmental abuse

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down for an interview with Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, after his recent talk at Perry World House.

During his Wednesday speech, Roth, who is also the Perry World House’s inaugural Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Visiting Fellow, discussed the outlook of international human rights through the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Roth said that he strayed away from a fatalistic approach to understanding human rights’ current status. In his eyes, the observed shifts brought on by prominent autocrats are indeed worrying, but not unstoppable. The solution to combating these advances, he added, is to reassert communities. 

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