Benjamin Ward, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division, supervises research on the EU region, the Western Balkans, and Turkey. He writes regularly about human rights in Europe. Before becoming deputy director, Ward researched Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo for Human Rights Watch. Before joining the organization, Ward worked for the United Nations in Somalia and New York, and in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was admitted to practice as a barrister in England & Wales in 2003, and holds a bachelor's in government from the London School of Economics and a master's in international affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Follow him on twitter @Benjamin_P_Ward
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fear of populism is hollowing out Europe’s leadership on refugeesEven where populists don’t win power through the ballot box, they gain it through shaping policy and public debate.
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageNow more than ever the UK needs the compass of human rightsIt is in uncertain times—like the aftermath of the Brexit vote—that we need human rights the most.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Twenty years after Srebrenica, incomplete justiceThe road to international justice is long and often winding, as Bosnia and Herzegovina shows us.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Assessing Europe’s response to the Paris attacksSince rising intolerance in Europe is not confined to anti-Semitism, Europe’s response also needs to be broader.
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Published in: openSecurityWhatever happened to winning hearts and minds?European governments risk adopting the same counter-productive approaches towards the latest Islamist groups and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s spectacle of compassion for migrantsThe EU approach exploits what is effectively a loophole in international law. If a person never reaches the EU...