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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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March 20, 2017
Lebanon Military Court Backs Down on Waste Protesters
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March 14, 2017
The Gaps in Lebanon’s New Refugee Policy
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January 12, 2017
The Lost Years
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December 16, 2016
Lost Years: Secondary Education for Children in Emergencies
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December 13, 2016
Lebanon Deports Domestic Worker Rights Organizer
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September 20, 2016
Educate Refugee Children Or Lose Them Forever
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August 18, 2016
Time Running Out For Syrian Refugee Kids Out Of School
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