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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nybooks.com | Amrit Singh |Aryeh Neier
On November 6, 2024, Guatemala’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, extended his congratulations to US president-elect Donald Trump on his victory and said, “We will continue to work with the US to strengthen our ties in the causes and under the common principles that have historically united us as nations.” For Arévalo, these “causes” include democracy and the rule of law.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nybooks.com | Gabriel Pasquini |Amrit Singh |Aryeh Neier
El 6 de noviembre de 2024, el presidente de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, felicitó al presidente electo de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, por su victoria y declaró su intención de seguir “trabajando con los Estados Unidos para fortalecer nuestros lazos en las causas y bajo los principios comunes que históricamente nos han unido como naciones”. Para Arévalo, esas “causas” incluyen la democracia y el estado de derecho.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
On November 21, when three International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, the decision drew a frenzy of hostile and often ill-informed reactions from many American lawmakers and defenders of Israel.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
Since about the beginning of the present century, authoritarianism has been on the rise the world over.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Aryeh Neier |Christine Henneberg |E. Tammy Kim
Christine HennebergAfter the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my garage.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | ANDREW O’HAGAN |E. Tammy Kim |Aryeh Neier |Suzanne Schneider
Christine Henneberg • John Washington • Suzanne Schneider • Aryeh Neier • E. Tammy Kim • Andrew O’Hagan* After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my garage.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
In early August the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report called “Welcome to Hell.” It presents the testimonies of fifty-five Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself who were held by Israeli authorities after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in what the report calls “a network of torture camps.” Some of these detainees were already in prison when the attack took place; others were arrested thereafter.
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May 29, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
It will take time to know exactly how many people have been killed. Netanyahu has only made it harder.
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May 24, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
To the Editors:My article “Is Israel Committing Genocide?” [NYR, June 6] cited numbers of the dead and wounded in Gaza, including the number of women and children killed, as reported by the United Nations. Shortly after the article went to press, reports circulated that the UN had changed the source on which it relies for fatality statistics in the territory.
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May 14, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Aryeh Neier
Like most of my colleagues in the international human rights movement, I use the term “genocide” sparingly. During my fifteen-year tenure at Human Rights Watch (HRW), which I cofounded in 1978, I applied the term to only one of the many great crimes that we monitored: Saddam Hussein’s slaughter of the Iraqi Kurds in 1988. The Kurds had suffered severe abuses under Saddam’s dictatorship, and during the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988 they rebelled.
