April 25, 2025ProgramBook Launch of Kenneth Roth’s “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments”
Watch the April 2nd book launch of "Writing Wrongs" at Harvard Law School, featuring Kennth Roth in conversation with Professor Gerald Neuman.
On April 2nd, we celebrated the launch of Kenneth Roth’s book “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments.” The recording of the book launch event is now available here.
In conversation with Gerald Neuman ’80, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and director of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, Roth presented his reflections on a lifetime spent in the struggle for human rights, including three decades as executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing especially on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice, the major powers’ foreign policies, the work of the UN, and the global contexts between democracy and autocracy. Under his leadership, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more than 500, conducting investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses—and pressuring offending governments to stop them.
The event was co-sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.