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Richard Dicker
Richard Dicker, served as director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program between 2001 and 2021. He has worked at Human Rights Watch since 1991. He started working on international justice issues in 1994 when Human Rights Watch attempted to bring a case before the International Court of Justice charging the government of Iraq with genocide against the Kurds. Dicker later led the Human Rights Watch multi-year campaign to establish the International Criminal Court (ICC). He continues to be closely involved on issues that are important at the ICC. He has also spent the past few years leading advocacy efforts urging the creation of effective accountability mechanisms. He monitored the Slobodan Milosevic trial in The Hague and made many trips to Iraq before and at the start of Saddam Hussein's trial. A former civil rights attorney in New York, Dicker graduated from New York University Law School and received his LLM from Columbia University.
Articles Authored
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April 14, 2021
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July 27, 2020
Time to Step up at the ICC
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August 2, 2017
How Europe is Bending the Arc Toward Justice
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June 22, 2017
Why International Justice Still Faces Roadblocks
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November 16, 2016
Defend the Integrity of the Rome Statute and a Court Worth Having
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January 6, 2015
Throwing Justice Under the Bus Is Not the Way to Go
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August 29, 2013
It’s Time for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to Go to The Hague