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Human Rights Watch’s Revolving Door
[font size="2"]Human Rights Watchs Revolving Door
Groups edicts and positions have often been suspiciously in line with US policy
by Belén Fernández
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during
the annual press conference of the non-governmental organization in Berlin, Germany,
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. (Credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Lets pretend that we want to start an organization to defend the rights of people across the globe that has no affiliation to any government or corporate interest. Which of the following characters should we therefore exclude from intimate roles in our organizations operation? (You may choose more than one answer.)
- An individual who presided over a NATO bombing, including various civilian targets.
- An individual who was formerly a special assistant to President Bill Clinton, a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright and a member of the State Departments policy planning staff who in 2009 declared that, under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place for the illegal CIA rendition program that has seen an untold number of innocent people kidnapped and tortured.
- A former US Ambassador to Colombia, who later lobbied on behalf of Newmont Mining and J.P. Morgan two US firms whose track records of environmental destruction would suggest that human wellbeing falls below elite profit on their list of priorities.
- A former CIA analyst.
If you answered all of the above, youre one step ahead of Human Rights Watch, which has played institutional host not only to persons matching descriptions AD but to many others with similar backgrounds.
Javier Solana, for example, was NATO secretary general during the 1999 assault on Yugoslavia, an event HRW itself described as entailing violations of international humanitarian law. Solana is now on the groups Board of Directors.[/font]
Continued at commondreams.org:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/09-5
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Human Rights Watch’s Revolving Door (Original Post)
newthinking
Jun 2014
OP
Thanks for posting this. It's truly worthwhile. Saving it for future reference. n/t
Judi Lynn
Jun 2014
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Judi Lynn
(160,526 posts)1. Thanks for posting this. It's truly worthwhile. Saving it for future reference. n/t
undeterred
(34,658 posts)2. Amnesty International is better. nt