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Bassam Khawaja
Bassam Khawaja is a deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa Division at Human Rights Watch, where he supervises work on Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, and on social protection and economic rights. He previously taught human rights advocacy at Columbia Law school, was co-director of the Human Rights and Privatization Project at New York University Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, was Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, and worked for Human Rights Watch as the Lebanon and Kuwait researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division and the Leonard H. Sandler Fellow in the children’s rights division. His work has focused on poverty and inequality, privatization, refugee and migrant rights, torture, education, free speech, women’s rights, the right to health, and environmental rights. He received a BA from Macalester College and a JD from Columbia University, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He is a Senior Fellow in the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School and Counsel to the Human Rights and Privatization Project at NYU School of Law.
Articles Authored
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August 12, 2024
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July 4, 2018
Refugee Rights in Lebanon Not Up for Debate
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March 23, 2018
Open Classrooms to Children with Disabilities
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February 21, 2018
Kuwait Releases Protesters on Bail
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January 17, 2018
Expanding Understanding of Human Rights in Lebanon
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January 3, 2018
Lebanon: Open Burning of Dumps Putting Health at Risk
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November 10, 2017
Lebanon Needs a Long-Term Waste-Management Strategy
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June 12, 2017
Lebanon: Don’t Resume Executions