Tom Porteous

Tom Porteous

Tom Porteous is the London director of Human Rights Watch

Articles by Tom Porteous

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HRW v Chavez II

  • 30 September 2008
  • 12 comments

Tom Porteous responds to an article by Hugh O'Shaughnessy in which the veteran journalist weighed in to the row about the expulsion from Venezuela of Human Rights Watch

The legal niceties of torture

  • 08 April 2008
  • 3 comments

Even as the UK was negotiating its assurances with Jordan, the United States was knowingly sending terrorism suspects to Jordan for purposes of interrogation under torture

Putin's war on civil society

  • 21 February 2008
  • 10 comments

In the run-up to Russia's presidential elections, the Kremlin continues to undermine democratic institutions and independent NGOS

'Rot here or die there'

  • 07 December 2007

Human Rights Watch's UK director Tom Porteous outlines the stark choice for Iraqis seeking refuge in their neighbouring states

Make Britain a human rights champion

  • 27 June 2007

Human Rights Watch's Tom Porteous gives his take on the direction foreign policy should take under Gordon Brown

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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