1. Kenneth Roth was born on September 23,1955 and is an American attorney, human rights activist, and writer.
20 Facts About Kenneth Roth
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Kenneth Roth was the executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022.
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Kenneth Roth was born on September 23,1955, in Elmhurst, Illinois, to Muriel T Roth and Walter S Roth.
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Kenneth Roth's father was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany.
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Kenneth Roth graduated from Brown University in 1977 with a BA in history and received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1980.
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On June 13,2011, Roth was married in an Anglican church to Annie Sparrow.
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Kenneth Roth worked in private practice as a litigator and served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Department of Justice for the Southern District of New York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington DC.
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Kenneth Roth joined Human Rights Watch in 1987 as deputy director.
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Since 1993, Kenneth Roth became the executive director of HRW.
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Kenneth Roth received honorary degrees from Brown University, Bowdoin College, the University of Ottawa, and the American University of Paris.
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Kenneth Roth serves on the Watson Institute Board of Overseers at Brown University, the Board of Governors of Bard College Berlin, and the Humanitarian and Development Advisory Panel of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
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In 2021, Kenneth Roth was offered a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
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Kenneth Roth said that the withdrawal was because of his criticism of Israel.
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Kenneth Roth told the Guardian and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now that he believed Harvard Kennedy School dean Douglas Elmendorf had capitulated to Harvard's donors who are strong supporters of Israel.
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On January 19,2023, The Kennedy School, which denies Kenneth Roth's allegations, reversed its decision, reoffering Kenneth Roth the fellowship.
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Kenneth Roth responded that Elmendorf failed to say anything to identify the people "who matter to him" who he said were behind his original veto decision.
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In 2014, the Egyptian government blocked Kenneth Roth from entering the country.
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Kenneth Roth was traveling to Egypt to release a report on its government's August 2013 Rabaa massacre of 817 sit-in protesters.
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In January 2020, Kenneth Roth said that he was denied entry to Hong Kong.
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Kenneth Roth was planning to launch the organization's World Report, which had an essay saying China is a growing threat to human rights around the world.