Fred Abrahams

Fred Abrahams is Associate Program Director at Human Rights Watch in Berlin, responsible for training HRW's research staff and supervising the divisions that cover Crisis & Conflict, Health, Arms and Technology. He has documented human rights and laws-of-war violations in places such as Albania, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. He has authored numerous reports, articles, and opinion pieces on human rights and co-authored A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo (University of California Press, 2002). His book, Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe (NYU Press, 2015), describes the fall of communism and turbulent transition in Albania. Abrahams has a bachelor's degree in German and International Studies from Washington University and a master's in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He previously taught at Columbia University and The New School in New York.