Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Conversation with Ken Roth on Human Rights in the World Today
Friday, May 16, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180
The Human Rights Initiative at Bard College Berlin and the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School invite you to:
A conversation with Ken Roth, long-time director of Human Rights Watch, about his new book – Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments – and the state of human rights today.
May 16, 2025 | 7pm – 8:30pm
The Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180
Reception to follow
Ken Roth is former executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading human rights organisations, which he led from 1993 to 2022. 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. Roth is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University and member of the Board of Governors at Bard College Berlin.
His recently published book, Righting Wrongs, combines memoir and analysis to refute the skeptics who question whether it is possible to defend human rights effectively. Roth pulls back the curtain on the strategies and tactics that Human Rights Watch and its allies employed to force governments, armed groups and companies to behave better.
At a time of global instability, rising extremism, and threats to human rights, Roth explains how it is possible to move even the most powerful and despotic governments.
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