Clive Baldwin
Clive Baldwin is Senior Legal Advisor for the legal and policy office at Human Rights Watch, where he has been working on issues of international law since 2007.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Clive was a practicing lawyer in London for the human rights law firm, Bindman and Partners, and worked on European human rights litigation at the AIRE Centre. He subsequently worked for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and later served as Head of Advocacy for Minority Rights Group International. While at Minority Rights Group, Clive implemented the organization’s first global litigation program. The cases he litigated included the Endorois Community v Kenya, the first Indigenous land rights case at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. In Finci v Bosnia-Hercegovina, he helped successfully challenge the Bosnian constitution’s exclusion of Jews from the presidency and upper house of parliament in the first such ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. Clive helped Human Rights Watch initiate a case with two other organizations against Libya in 2011 that resulted in the first ruling against a state by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Clive received a bachelors degree in international history and politics from the University of Leeds, a masters in international relations from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and studied law at City University, London. He speaks French.
Articles Authored
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September 24, 2024
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September 19, 2024
World Court Findings on Israeli Apartheid a Wake-Up Call
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October 27, 2023
How Does International Humanitarian Law Apply in Israel and Gaza?
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June 21, 2023
Let Chagossians go home, decide their future
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May 11, 2023
Charles Can Help Undo a Colonial Crime
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February 15, 2023
Interview: UK, US Treatment of Chagossians a Continuing Colonial Crime
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December 18, 2020
The ICC Prosecutor Office’s Cop-Out on UK Military Crimes in Iraq
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September 23, 2020
UK Seeks to Stop Justice for War Crimes
Reports Authored
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“That’s When the Nightmare Started”
UK and US Forced Displacement of the Chagossians and Ongoing Colonial Crimes