Fred Abrahams is a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's emergencies division, specializing in human rights crises and armed conflict. He has documented human rights and laws-of-war violations in places such as Sri Lanka, Iraq, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Libya, Kosovo, Albania, and most recently Israel and Gaza, where he led Human Rights Watch’s research team during the latest conflict. The author of numerous articles on human rights, Abrahams co-authored A Village Destroyed (University of California Press) about war crimes in Kosovo and is completing a book about Albania’s transition from communism (NYU Press). Abrahams has a B.A. in German and International Studies and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. He speaks German and Albanian.

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