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Patricia Gossman
Patricia Gossman is an associate director for the Asia division. Prior to joining HRW, Dr. Gossman was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice on Afghanistan, and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project, an OSI-funded project to document war crimes committed during the Afghan conflict, 1978-2001. She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering not only Afghanistan, but India, Pakistan and Nepal. Dr. Gossman received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region.
Articles Authored
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January 24, 2017
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December 20, 2016
Freed Afghan Warlord May Punish Those Who Helped Jail Him
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October 20, 2016
Suffer the Afghan Children
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September 21, 2016
Afghanistan War Crimes Suspect Comes Home
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April 26, 2016
Dispatches: Barring Afghan War Crimes Suspects from the US
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April 20, 2016
China’s “Anti-Terrorism” Alliance Puts Afghan Rights at Risk
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March 17, 2016
Dispatches: Afghan Inquiry Slaps Wrists, Sidelines Justice
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March 12, 2016
Dispatches: Afghanistan Torture Video Highlights Impunity
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Reports Authored
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“No Forgiveness for People Like You”
Executions and Enforced Disappearances in Afghanistan under the Taliban
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“I Thought Our Life Might Get Better”
Implementing Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence against Women Law
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“You Have No Right to Complain”
Education, Social Restrictions, and Justice in Taliban-Held Afghanistan
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