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We are very proud to be able to welcome Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, to Books & Company.
In 2025, Roth published ‘Righting Wrongs’ about his nearly three decades directing Human Rights Watch and building it into the powerful global institution that it is today. The book tells the story of Roth’s many innovations and strategies, combining memoir with an analysis of HRW’s role in the human rights movement. The organization currently has a staff of more than 500 working in some 100 countries.
At a time of global instability , Roth provides an insider’s view of how it is possible for a relatively small group of people, through persistence and creativity, to move even the most powerful and despotic governments. The book is a call to action and provides reason for optimism.
About Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. He has conducted numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world, meeting with dozens of heads of state and countless ministers. He is quoted widely in the media and has written hundreds of articles on a wide range of human rights issues, devoting special attention to the world’s most dire situations, the conduct of war, the foreign policies of the major powers, the work of the United Nations, and the global contest between autocracy and democracy. Prior to Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth was a federal prosecutor in New York and worked on the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington.
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