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Phelim Kine

Deputy Director Asia Division, Human Rights Watch

Phelim Kine is a deputy director in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division who supervises HRW’s work on Afghanistan, Indonesia and the Philippines. Mr. Kine is also an adjunct professor in the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York. A former news wire bureau chief in Jakarta, Mr. Kine worked as a journalist for more than a decade in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Taiwan prior to joining Human Rights Watch in April 2007. He has written extensively on human rights issues including military impunity, extrajudicial killings, the death penalty, religious intolerance and the pursuit of transitional justice. Mr. Kine’s opinion pieces on human rights challenges in Asia have appeared in media including the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, The Guardian, CNN.com and Foreign Policy. Mr. Kine has spoken publicly on Asia’s human rights challenges at venues ranging from the European Parliament and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to the Council on Foreign Relations and a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

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