Sarah Saadoun
Sarah Saadoun is a senior researcher working on poverty and inequality at Human Rights Watch. She investigates the multilayered impact of economic policy reforms, poor governance, and moneyed interests on economic and social rights, including social protection, health, education, and clean water.
Her current work focuses on the International Monetary Fund's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. She has previously investigated the human rights impact of the US government’s deregulation of mountaintop-removal coal mining, as well as of the disposal of coal ash, a toxic byproduct of combusting coal. She has also researched and written extensively on how corruption in resource-rich countries robs people of their fundamental rights, with a particular focus on Equatorial Guinea.
Saadoun was formerly a Leonard H. Sandler fellow at Human Rights Watch, where she researched and reported on human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine. Her primary focus was human rights and international humanitarian law violations associated with businesses operating in or with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as well as developing broader guidance for companies doing business in occupied territories.
Saadoun received a law degree from Columbia Law School in 2014, a master’s degree in comparative literature from Hebrew University in 2009, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Queens College of the City University of New York in 2004.
Articles Authored
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September 24, 2024
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July 12, 2024
Moving Beyond GDP Towards a Human Rights Economy
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February 15, 2024
Confronting the Climate Crisis Can Also Advance Socio-Economic Rights
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January 17, 2024
A Human Rights Economy is Key to Sustainable Development
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October 12, 2023
How IMF-Driven Policies Make Some Kenyans Poorer
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September 26, 2023
How IMF Policies Undermine Rights
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September 15, 2023
An Opportunity to Embrace a Human Rights Economy
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February 25, 2023
China Should Rethink Its Position on Debt
Reports Authored
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Equatorial Guinea: UN Review Should Highlight Abuses
Critics Intimidated, Arbitrarily Detained, Beaten
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The Coal Mine Next Door
How the US Government’s Deregulation of Mountaintop Removal Threatens Public Health
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