Kenneth Roth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Former long-time executive director of Human Rights Watch. Now visiting professor at Princeton. My book, "Righting Wrongs," to be published by Knopf.
U.S. Climate Finance: Egypt
U. S. Department of StateKenneth RothThe Egyptian government of President Sisi denies leaked secret plans to sell Russia arms while Egypt receives $1+ billion in annual U.S. military aid. The State Department does not deny that the plan existed but simply says that it was not "carried out." https://t.co/zB0TeamJLC
Paperback, 2014
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Grey Bees
Andrey KurkovKenneth Roth"The Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov won a National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel 'Grey Bees,' about a beekeeper living in the 'gray zone' in the Donbas," where at the time, Russia-backed militia had seized Ukrainian territory. https://t.co/OS33AcP8Gg
Paperback, 2022
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Chinese Rocket Systems: Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
Wendell MinnickKenneth Roth"At least 550 civilian casualties, including 142 deaths, have been recorded" by the UN through 28 Feb -- most caused by "explosive weapons w/ a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery,...Multiple Launch Rocket Systems [and] air strikes." https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-humanitarian-impact-situation-report-500-pm-eet-1-march-2022 https://t.co/ZL4gqX6MIK
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General Committee, Verbatim Records of Meetings, April 29 to May 7, 1947, V2: Bureau
United NationsKenneth RothThe United Nations human rights office has had a bureau in Uganda since 2006. The government of the increasingly autocratic President Museveni, who clings to power by suppressing critics and independent voices, has just shut it down. https://t.co/fwjDzDrRXk
Paperback, 2013
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: 2014
United NationsKenneth Roth"The United Nations aviation council on Friday voted to hear a case against Russia over the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17." https://t.co/mNyyLQgHCv
Paperback, 2014
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on Its Development
Matthew C. R. CravenKenneth RothIf "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...is the standard by which our forebears challenged us to measure ourselves" as Biden told the UN today, why hasn't the US government ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights? https://t.co/qRe69KS0hm
Paperback, 1998
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor RooseveltKenneth RothHere is a fascinating article by Eleanor Roosevelt from early 1948 on the process of drafting what would become the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is remarkable how cooperative the effort seemed to be -- a big contrast w/ rights promotion today. https://t.co/ZNU9EYfpi3
Hardcover, 2001
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray BradburyKenneth Roth"As Ray Bradbury depicted in Fahrenheit 451...book burning is meant to stop people from thinking, which makes them easier to govern, to control....Once a society acquiesces to burning books, it tends to soon see the need to burn the people who love books." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/opinion/culture/book-banning-viet-thanh-nguyen.html?referringSource=articleShare
Paperback, 2012
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U.S. Climate Finance: Yemen
U. S. Department of StateKenneth Roth"The State Department and the Defense Department have failed to assess civilian casualties caused by a Saudi-led coalition in the catastrophic war in Yemen and the use of American-made weapons in the killings, according to an internal government report." https://t.co/NyyAxsu4yi
Paperback, 2014
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Israel
United States House of RepresentativesKenneth RothAutocrats like Netanyahu and Orban note that the president and Senate appoint judges in the United States, but the U.S. also has two houses of Congress that are separate from the executive and a federal system. Israel and Hungary don't. #ChecksAndBalances https://t.co/HIugw1yu0x
Paperback, 2017
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