David Mepham has been UK director of Human Rights Watch since April 2011. Before then he was a senior policy adviser in the UK's Department for International Development; associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the head of its international programme; and head of policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK. He is co-editor of Progressive Foreign Policy - new directions for the UK (Polity, 2007) and author of many articles in the media
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs David Cameron serious about curbing child marriage?The Prime Minister has stated his determination to combat child marriage globally, but he must use Britain's...
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Published in: HomePutting development to rights: a post-2015 agendaA lesson of the last decade's work on the Millennium Development Goals is the need to rethink current approaches to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGetting to the truth about UK-Gaddafi tiesSome say we should put Britain's complicity in torture and human rights abuse in Libya behind us. We cannot do so....
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Published in: HomeSyria’s guilty men
The violent repression of citizens in Syria is escalating, and can now be linked to named officials of the regime....
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Published in: HomeSouth Africa: rights, accountability and maternal mortality
A study of the healthcare environment of expectant mothers in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa reveal severe...
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