Kenneth Roth, former head of HRW: 'Human rights can be defended without the United States'
- Posted on May 4, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Kenneth Roth, former head of HRW: 'Human rights can be defended without the United States'

The former executive director of the influential NGO Human Rights Watch says that authoritarian regimes are not indifferent to public opinion pressures for human rights defense. With the Trump administration disengaging, he says in an interview with Le Monde that it is now up to Europeans to take the lead.