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Roth, Kenneth

 
9780593686973: Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments
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ISBN 10: 0593686977 ISBN 13: 9780593686973
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026

Sinopsis

From the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, the fascinating and inspiring story of taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the world

"A remarkable book that will restore your faith in human beings. . . . One of the most important books of the year, if not of the next decade." --Elif Shafak, author of There Are Rivers in the Sky

In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, 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. Roth has grappled with the worst of humanity, taken on the biggest villains of our time, and persuaded leaders from around the globe to stand up to their repressive counterparts.

The son of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany just before the war began, Roth grew up knowing full well how inhumane governments could be. He has traveled the world to meet cruelty and injustice on its home turf: he arrived in Rwanda shortly after the Genocide; scrutinized the impact of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait; investigated and condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghur Muslims, to bring Myanmar's officials to justice after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine, even to reign in the U.S. government. Roth's many innovations and strategies included the deployment of a concept as old as mankind--the powerful tool of "shaming"--and here he illustrates its surprising effectiveness against evildoers.

This is a story of wins, losses, and ongoing battles in the ceaseless fight to rend the moral arc from the hands of injustice and bend it toward good.

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KENNETH ROTH is the former 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. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other major publications. He spends his time between New York and Geneva.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2026
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ISBN 10 
0593686977
ISBN 13 
9780593686973
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Número de páginas
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ISBN 10:  0593801326 ISBN 13:  9780593801321
Editorial: Knopf, 2025
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