Iain Levine

Iain Levine is deputy executive director, programme, at Human Rights Watch, overseeing the organization's research and reporting work. Levine's field experience includes more than 10 years in Sudan and Mozambique working on humanitarian programs with particular emphasis on protection of children and other civilians. He has also worked as Amnesty International's representative at the United Nations and UNICEF's chief of humanitarian policy and advocacy. He is a graduate of Hull University and the London School of Economics.

Voices in the wilderness and the imperative of solidarity

Human rights organizations, like any other, have to wrestle with the challenge of setting priorities with limited resources. Choices always have to be made because there are never enough resources

By Iain Levine

/ 20 May 2014

La internacionalización del movimiento de derechos humanos: ¿crear un puente entre el norte y el sur?

Conforme Human Rights Watch coloca más personal de tiempo completo en el sur global, las agrupaciones locales de derechos humanos en estas regiones expresan sus inquietudes sobre la competencia entre donadores y las pretensiones de liderazgo del norte. ¿Podemos superar las viejas dicotomías y conc

By Iain Levine

/ 1 Apr 2014

العنوان: تدويل حركة حقوق الإنسان: خلق جسر بين الشمال والجنوب؟

ملخص المقال: على الرغم من أن منظمة هيومن رايتس ووتش تضع مزيداً من الموظفين بدوام كامل في دول الجنوب، فإن جماعات حقوق الإنسان المحلية في هذه المناطق تثير المخاوف بشأن تنافس المانحين ومزاعم القيادة الشمالية. يمكننا تجاوز الانقسامات القديمة والتركيز على الأهداف المشتركة لرسم جميع مجالات شبكة حقوق الإ

By Iain Levine

/ 1 Apr 2014

Internationalizing the human rights movement: creating a North-South bridge?

As Human Rights Watch places more full-time staff in the global South, domestic rights groups in these regions are raising concerns about donor competition and pretensions of northern leadership. Can we move beyond old dichotomies and focus on common goals to draw all areas of the human rights net

By Iain Levine

/ 1 Apr 2014

Will technology transform the human rights movement?

In recent times, human rights activists have been made very aware of technology’s downside. The recent NSA surveillance scandal and the revelations of the vacuuming up of metadata around

By Iain Levine

/ 26 Mar 2014

Israel and human rights: voice and silence

A series of legislative measures in Israel will further constrain Israel’s beleaguered human-rights groups. A proposed commission to monitor their work highlights the real motive behind these efforts, say Lisa Magarrell & Iain Levine.

By Lisa Magarrell and Iain Levine

/ 24 Feb 2011