Dinah PoKempner is general counsel of Human Rights Watch. As a field researcher, she documented torture, war crimes, and other serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, China, and former Yugoslavia. At Human Rights Watch, she is currently responsible for the development of institutional positions on international law and policy and ethics of human rights practice. Her writing encompasses freedom of expression, cyber freedom, privacy, hate speech and defamation of religions, whistleblowing, peace-keeping operations, international tribunals, U.N. human rights mechanisms, humanitarian law and refugee issues, and the development of the human rights movement. She is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University Law School.

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