Search for: "Sarah Leah Whitson"
Results 1 - 20
of 30
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
22 Jul 2009, 7:07 pm
In her ongoing attempt to defend Human Rights Watch's indefensible, Israel-bashing, fundraising dinner with Saudi elites, with government officials in attendance, Sarah Leah Whitson has now played the racism card. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 7:13 pm
(David Bernstein) It’s fascinating to listen again to this talk by HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson (starting at 16:53) from the Summer of 2009. [read post]
16 May 2008, 6:05 am
Responding to an NGO Monitor Report accusing Human Rights Watch of anti-Israel bias (a topic that has been covered here before), HRW's Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 6:07 pm
I blogged in June about a trip a delegation from Human Rights Watch took to Saudi Arabia, where Sarah Leah Whitson, director of HRW's Middle East and North Africa division,... [read post]
8 May 2015, 8:47 am
HRW Middle East and North Africa director Sarah Leah Whitson called the situation "deeply worrying,"... [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 7:55 am
The Middle East director for HRW, Sarah Leah Whitson described the widespread use of sexual violence against... [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 5:59 am
Weiss has longstanding journalist-source ties to Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson, who [in both senses] shares with him an interest in analyzing Jewish psychology. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 1:12 pm
“Executing seven people in one day shows Kuwait is moving in exactly the wrong direction on the death penalty,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 3:38 pm
Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch (below left); Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; and Philippa Thomas, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University & Foreign Correspondent, BBC (below right). [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:24 pm
Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East Director at Human Rights Watch, observes, "There seems to be no end in sight to the Iranian government's persecution of women's rights activists. . . . [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 8:05 am
” As I noted previously, I don’t think a reasonable observer could read HRW’s reports on Gaza, especially in light of statements by HRW poobahs Ken Roth and Sarah Leah Whitson, and reach that conclusion.Opinio Juris commenter Michael Huntziger found a particularly damning quote from HRW, one I had overlooked: “The Obama administration should fully endorse the report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict led by Justice… [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 11:26 am
— Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) November 18, 2022 Secretary General for Amnesty International Agnès Callamard said the call for bin Salman’s immunity is a deep betrayal. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 11:14 am
When I asked the Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson if HRW was ever going to release one, she said: “We have a draft, but I’m not sure I want to put one out. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 7:28 am
In the report’s press release, Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch said: All the Saudi Shia want is for their government to respect their identity and treat them equally. [read post]
19 May 2010, 6:03 am
I think Sarah Leah Whitson’s and Joe Stork’s (the director and deputy-director of HRW’s M.E. division) bona-fides as far left-wing anti-Israel ideologues masquerading as neutral human rights advocates are well-established by now, but if Yglesias has some new information– e.g., that Whitson didn’t really gush over Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein’s “brilliant mind and generous spirit,” or that she really… [read post]
25 Feb 2023, 5:46 am
Eisen (@NormEisen), Siven Watt (@SivenWatt) and Fred Wertheimer (@FredWertheimer) Immigration Troubling Signs in Biden Administration’s Recent Efforts to Reimplement Migrant Protection Protocols Program by Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) Public Corruption Why Mohamed bin Salman’s Slush Fund is an Urgent National Security Matter for Congress by Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) Values in Foreign Policy Symposium A Values-based Approach to Foreign Policy? [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 3:11 pm
Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (Principle Presenter) Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College Philippa Thomas, Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University Logistics What: Live Web Seminar on "The Crisis in Libya: The International Response"… [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 6:16 am
The piece mentions, but does not dwell on, the various scandals that engulfed HRW last year—the fundraising trip to Saudi Arabia in which HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson invoked the organization’s hostility to Israel and the “pro-Israel lobby”; reports that deputy director Joe Stork’s prior “human rights” background primarily consisted of editing and writing for a radical left, anti-Israel publication; and the… [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:01 am
Levine speak for the M.E. division; I think their p.r. people have realized that Ken Roth and M.E. director Sarah Leah Whitson are so hostile to Israel that they just add fuel to the fire whenever a controversy erupts). [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 9:36 pm
Recall, for example, the speech by HRW Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson on human rights problem in the Middle East, covered previously on this blog, in which she spent a huge chunk of her time denouncing "Israel's [recent] wars", and a total of twelve seconds incoherently mentioning Hezbollah and Hamas. [read post]
