In decades spent convincing world leaders to protect human rights, I\u2019ve learned a thing or two about working with his type<\/p>\n
The common wisdom is that Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy will be a disaster for human rights<\/a>. Certainly his penchant for embracing autocrats and breaching norms bodes poorly, such as his outrageous proposal<\/a> to force two million Palestinians out of Gaza \u2013 which would be a blatant war crime \u2013 or his suggestion that Ukraine is to blame for Russia\u2019s invasion. But Trump also likes to cut a deal, as shown by his paradoxically positive role in securing the current (precarious) Gaza ceasefire<\/a>. If Trump the dealmaker can be nudged in the right direction, he might, against all odds, be brought to play a productive role for human rights.<\/p>\n As executive director of Human Rights Watch, I spent more than three decades devising strategies to pressure or cajole leaders to better respect rights. I have dealt with brutal dictators, self-serving autocrats and misguided democrats. My experience shows that there is always an angle \u2013 something the leader cares about \u2013 that can be used to steer them in a more rights-respecting direction.<\/p>\n Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch and author of Righting Wrongs<\/a><\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In decades spent convincing world leaders to protect human rights, I\u2019ve learned a thing or two about working with his type Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch and author of Righting Wrongs The common wisdom is that Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy will be a disaster for human rights. Certainly his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}