Kenneth Roth
@KenRoth
Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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A Russian network of brokers sponsored by Pyongyang has taken North Koreans to work in Russia in exploitative conditions and in violation of UN sanctions, some at factories that turn out items Moscow uses in the Ukraine war.
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"The International Criminal Court is where victims of the gravest crimes—from Gaza to Ukraine to the Philippines—can turn when their own governments will not act, and where even heads of state can be made to answer. The Trump sanctions are designed to close that door, and to punish anyone who helps keep it open."
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A Saudi court has sentenced a Sri Lankan migrant worker to death over a Facebook comment that was deemed blasphemous, whatever that is.
Trump would sacrifice Ukraine for his corruption. He has implied that the point of allowing Russia to sell diesel is to lower fuel prices for Americans, trying to deceive voters into thinking that "the cause of high prices is Ukraine and not his own war of choice in Iran." But "the amount of fuel that Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight." This looks, instead, like an "attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, perhaps in order to finally complete the multiple business deals that the Russians are known to have discussed with American negotiators and others in Trump’s orbit."
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"Export statistics indicate that the increase in diesel...prices stems largely from Trump’s war with Iran," but to change the subject, Trump will purchase diesel fuel from Russia even though that finances Putin's war-crime attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
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Rather than stop his war with Iran at the heart of the problem, "Trump has allowed imports of diesel from Russia," funding Putin's war-crime attacks on Ukrainian civilians "for a measure that experts say will have a negligible impact on global prices."
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In one of their biggest war crimes in Ukraine, Russian forces bombed the Mariupol theater even though it was clearly marked as housing many children. Now, on the theory that the bigger the lie the better, Russian propagandists blame Ukraine for the attack.
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While Trump funds Putin's war-crime attacks on Ukrainian civilians (by buying Russian diesel to modestly lower prices before US midterms), Trump threatens to block weapons shipments to Ukraine unless it stops its drone assaults on Russian oil refineries.
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Netanyahu's threat to prosecute Israeli soldiers who described Israeli war crimes in Gaza is an attack on journalism. The NAZA film is a journalistic endeavor, building on the earlier journalistic work of the Israeli media outlets +972 and Local Call.
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The Saudi and Emirati governments are buying influence with Trump through the investment fund of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
We’re entering an era in which a A.I. can design a pathogen faster than we can create the countermeasure to fight it. This will be an especially grave issue when less-than-transparent parties are involved such as Russia’s plague research lab.
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Endorsing Trump's might-makes-right conduct, Marco Rubio wants to embrace an ethos of "conquest." That's what Putin is doing in Ukraine, Rwanda is doing in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and China threatens to do with Taiwan.
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No one should be getting paid by the countries they are conducting diplomacy with, especially not Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Soldiers have a duty to reject orders to commit war crimes. They also have a duty to report war crimes when they occur. That's what the Israeli soldiers did in the film NAZA. Netanyahu wants to prosecute them.
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The wrong response: rather than stop the genocidal attacks on Palestinian civilians, Netanyahu wants to prosecute the Israeli soldiers and officers who describe the attacks in the powerful film NAZA. More evidence of his criminality.
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Trump would rather finance Russian war-crime attacks on Ukrainian civilians than admit that his pointless war of choice with Iran is the main cause of the skyrocketing cost of diesel fuel.
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For Israel, the "ceasefire" in southern Lebanon has been an opportunity to destroy towns and villages across the region in an effort to depopulate it — very similar to its strategy in Gaza.
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Today, 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon have been mostly leveled. The scale of Israel’s systematic demolition has fueled fears that Israel is seeking to permanently empty the territory of its population.
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Elon Musk hopes his vote counts more than all other Americans combined as he funnels $276 million to try to salvage sinking Republican prospects for the midterms. But we can still reject his manipulation at the ballot box.
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While focusing on settler violence and settlement expansion, the European Union is still downplaying Israel's genocide in Gaza even while the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay in part for her having recognized that genocide.
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