About David Mepham
David Mepham is UK director of Human Rights Watch. He was formerly associate director of the Institute of Public Policy Research, and head of policy and advocacy at Save the Children UK
Articles by David Mepham
Gordon Brown’s foreign-policy challenges
The opening weeks of Gordon Brown's premiership have brought a marked change of tone to the conduct of British foreign policy. The misconceived and counterproductive notion of a "war on terror" has been discarded, replaced by a new focus on winning "hearts and minds". While Tony Blair's rhetoric on international affairs was often strident and evangelical, Brown's public statements since he became prime minister on 27 June 2007 have so far been much more measured. At his meeting with President Bush at Camp David, for example, Gordon Brown stressed the importance he attached to the transatlantic relationship, but without any of the gushing praise for the president that became such a feature of Blair/Bush meetings over recent years.
Darfur and the 'responsibility to protect'
The international community has run out of excuses - but not options - in Darfur, says David Mepham.
The next United Nations leader: a time for transparency
The appointment of Kofi Annan's successor is imminent. The incumbent has done well, the candidates are serious – but the system for choosing the world's figurehead must be reformed, says David Mepham.
Hamas and political reform in the middle east
The lesson of Palestine's election is that the international community should become more serious and sophisticated about political reform in the middle east, says David Mepham of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
A mixed-bag summit
The United Nations world summit disappointed optimists, but was its outcome so bad? David Mepham reads between the lines for a deeper assessment.
Accountability in Africa: whose problem?
Harmful western policies too often reinforce the damage that many African regimes inflict on their own people. 2005 can and must be a year of change, writes David Mepham.
David Held's missing links
David Held’s impressively ambitious perspective on globalisation underplays three important factors, says David Mepham.
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