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In March, Random House published a long awaited biography by Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. In three decades under the leadership of Roth, the organization conducted investigations in 100 countries to uncover abuses — and exerted pressure on the offending governments to end the abuses.
It is, therefore, with great pleasure that we invite you to an evening with Belkis Wille, associate director in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division of Human Rights Watch.
Belkis Wille will speak about the methodology outlined and built by Ken Roth over the past decades: Investigate, Expose, Change, and how Human Rights Watch applies this method in ongoing armed conflicts. Belkis will also speak more generally about working in crisis, conflict and arms, drawing on her own recent experiences in, among other places, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Israel and Gaza.
About Belkis Wille
Belkis Wille is an associate director in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. Since 2022, she has been documenting laws of war violations in Gaza, Israel, Sudan, and Ukraine. Belkis has also spearheaded the organization’s work investigating the harms stemming from personal data collection, including biometrics, in humanitarian contexts. This work has included investigations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, and Kenya. She has also led the organization’s work on the preservation of content taken down by social media platforms that is vital to war crimes investigations.
Belkis was previously Human Rights Watch’s senior Iraq researcher for three-and-a half years, and its Kuwait, Qatar, and Yemen researcher, based in Sanaa, for over three years.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Belkis worked with the World Organisation Against Torture in Libya. She has an LLM in human rights and humanitarian law from the University of Essex, a graduate diploma in law from City University London, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Belkis speaks English, German, French, and Arabic.
About Kenneth Roth and the book
‘He has traveled the world to meet cruelty and injustice on its home turf: he arrived in Rwanda shortly after the Genocide; scrutinized the impact of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait; investigated and condemned Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians. He directed efforts to curtail the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims, to bring Myanmar’s officials to justice after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, to halt Russian war crimes in Ukraine, even to reign in the U.S. government.’