Aryeh Neier

Aryah Neier
Aryah Neier by David Levine

Aryeh Neier, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is President of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007)

From the Review

December 20, 2007: 'The Death of the Good Bishop' (letter)

November 22, 2007: The Death of the Good Bishop*

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman

June 28, 2007: Release Kian Tajbakhsh! (letter)

December 21, 2006: Human Rights Watch and Israel: An Exchange

November 2, 2006: The Attack on Human Rights Watch*

April 27, 2006: Russia: The Persecution of Civil Society*

January 13, 2005: Hero*

Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969–2003 by Emma Gilligan

February 14, 2002: The Military Tribunals on Trial

November 29, 2001: A Court for Terrorists (letter)

March 8, 2001: The Quest for Justice*

A Country Unmasked by Alex Boraine

Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity by Priscilla B. Hayner, with a preface by Timothy Garton Ash

Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals by Gary Jonathan Bass

Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson, with an introduction by Kenneth Roth

For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator by Richard J. Goldstone, with a foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor

Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned a report from the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, with an address by Nelson Mandela

September 25, 1997: Impasse in Kosovo*

October 19, 1995: Do Trials Work? (letter)

February 17, 1994: Genocide & the Khmer Rouge (letter)

February 3, 1994: Kosovo Survives!*

November 4, 1993: The Nuremberg Precedent (letter)

September 23, 1993: Putting Saddam Hussein on Trial

Crimes Against Humanity and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy Congress, May 25, 1993 Report issued by the Executive Council of the Iraqi National

November 7, 1991: Oxfam Unaffiliated (letter)

May 16, 1991: India's Awful Prisons*

June 14, 1990: Human Rights in China (letter)

February 1, 1990: What Should Be Done about the Guilty?*

July 20, 1989: Cuba's Prisoners (letter)

June 15, 1989: Cuba: The Human Rights Show*

October 13, 1988: 'In Cuban Prisons': Another Exchange

September 29, 1988: 'In Cuban Prisons': An Exchange

July 21, 1988: National Forum Foundation (letter)

June 30, 1988: In Cuban Prisons*

April 28, 1988: It Wasn't Them (letter)

March 17, 1988: Has Arias Made a Difference?*

June 25, 1987: Pinochet's Way*

June 11, 1987: Against Loans to Chile (letter)

April 9, 1987: The Contra Contradiction*

February 26, 1987: Watch on Colombia (letter)

July 17, 1986: Castro's Victims*

May 29, 1986: 'Contra' Justice*

April 10, 1986: The US and the Contras*

With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua by Christopher Dickey

Nicaragua: The Human Rights Record

March 14, 1985: Crackdown in Yugoslavia (letter)

March 1, 1984: Massacre in Guatemala: An Exchange

June 2, 1983: Extermination in Guatemala*

December 17, 1981: Missing Person (letter)

December 6, 1979: Free the Czechs (letter)

March 7, 1974: A Program to Cripple Federal Prisoners (letter)

April 8, 1971: Alive! (letter)

Books by Aryeh Neier

Taking Liberties (2002)
War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice (1998)
Prison Conditions in India (1991)
Only Judgment, the Limits of Litigation in Social Change (1982)
Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom (1979)
Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution (1976)
Dossier: The Secret Files They Keep on You (1975)