Media Appearances

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BBC Radio 4, April 14, 2025

The Rush Hour

Spectrum News NY1, April 4, 2025

Kenneth Roth, three decades of ‘naming and shaming’ autocrats

by Paula Dupraz-Dobias, March 30, 2025, Geneva Solutions

After leading Human Rights Watch for three decades, Kenneth Roth stepped down in 2022 to write a memoir about his mission to uphold rights and pressure governments that violate them to change their policies. He tells Geneva Solutions how he made that happen and why he thinks China is the biggest threat to the human rights system.

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The power of shame in human rights

Kera Think, March 25, 2025

For human rights organizations dealing with oppressive governments, sometimes humiliating them on the world stage actually gets things done. Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his organization’s tactic of “naming and shaming” countries that violate human rights and why Americans are sometimes blind to the lessening of freedoms and dignity around the world.

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The "Israel exception" to human rights standards

PoliticsJOE, March 23, 2025

International Horizons

Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies with John Torpey, March 24, 2025

The World with Yalda Hakim

Sky News, March 12, 2025

Longtime Human Rights Watch director’s new book charts how to hold authoritarian regimes accountable

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons, WBEZ Chicago, March 10, 2025

As the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth spent 30 years on the frontlines in the fight for human rights. During that time, he exposed war crimes, confronted authoritarian regimes and, on more than one occasion, found himself in the crosshairs.

Reset checks in with Roth about his career at HRW, using “shame” as a tool to hold governments accountable and his concerns about the state of human rights today.

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Books to make you think

Inside Geneva Podcast, March 4, 2025

Democracy Now!

March 3, 2025

U.S.-Europe Rift Widens as Russia Welcomes Trump’s Shifting Ukraine Stance Following Zelensky Clash – Watch here

Ken Roth on Israel’s “Starvation Strategy” in Gaza & “Righting Wrongs” of Abusive Governments – Watch here

The End of Human Rights?

Foreign Policy Live Podcast, February 28, 2025

China: The greatest threat to human rights

The Prospect Podcast, February 26, 2025

“The Autocrats Feel Emboldened” Kenneth Roth on the Fight for Human Rights

PBS Amanpour & Co., February 24, 2025

In 2022, Kenneth Roth left Human Rights Watch after 30 years at the helm. During his tenure the organization grew dramatically, conducting investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses. Speaking to Walter Isaacson, Roth discusses his new book, “Righting Wrongs,” which examines his three decades leading the charge for human rights.

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How to Battle Abusive Governments? – Kenneth Roth on the Strategies and Impact of Human Rights Watch

RevDem Podcast, February 17, 2025

New Books in Human Rights

New Books Network, February 15, 2025

Israel, Hamas agreement

NY1, January 16, 2025

The three-phase agreement between Israel and Hamas would begin Sunday but is not fully settled yet as Israel has delayed a cabinet vote.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there are last-minute hurdles that need to be cleared.

But U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he fully expects the deal to begin on Sunday.

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2024

The ICC Warrants Against Benjamin Netanyahu

Law and Disorder podcast on international justice, December 21, 2024

Presidential attempt to impose martial law

VOA, December 11, 2024

International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

PBS Newshour, November 22, 2024

Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank

Al Jazeera English, August 29, 2024

The Right Fight

The New York Review, July 27, 2024

Interviewed by Carolyn Neugarten

“The defense of human rights is a hard-ball endeavor, it is not about holding hands and singing kumbaya but about imposing consequences that shift the cost-benefit analysis behind governmental repression.”

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Israel’s hostage-rescue operation in Gaza

Al Jazeera English, June 9, 2024

Israel’s secret war on the International Criminal Court

Democracy Now, May 30, 2024

Israel’s assault on Rafah

The Brief, with Jim Clancy, May 16, 2024

Biden’s hypocrisy toward Israel

Democracy Now, April 9, 2024

Biden’s double talk regarding Gaza

Al Jazeera English, March 31, 2024

South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

NJ PBS, January 26, 2024

The case of Antoinette Lattouf

ABC The Briefing, January 18, 2024

The case of Antoinette Lattouf

ABC radio, January 18, 2024

On the case of Antoinette Lattouf

ABC radio, January 16, 2024

It was meant to be a brief on-air job, presenting ABC Radio Sydney during the Christmas break. But three days into her one-week stint, Lebanese-Australian journalist and social commentator Antoinette Lattouf was told not to come back.

Her lawyer Josh Bornstein has told Nine Newspapers Ms Lattouf was informed at her dismissal that sharing a Human Rights Watch post on the Gaza conflict was a breach of the ABC’s social media policy. The case is now before the Fair Work Commission.

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