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Richard Dicker


Director of Human Rights Watch’s International Justice Program. He is a graduate of New York University Law School and has received his LLM from Columbia University. After his academic training, Mr. Dicker spent two years practicing civil rights law in New York. For the past ten years, he has worked for Human Rights Watch, where he first focused his efforts on human rights issues in Africa and Asia and published many articles on these subjects. Richard Dicker worked on Human Rights Watch's effort to bring a genocide case before the International Court of Justice charging the government of Iraq with the extermination of over 100,000 Kurds in 1988. He has led Human Rights Watch's efforts to establish the International Criminal Court for the past eight years. In addition, he has monitored the proceedings against Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on behalf of Human Rights Watch.

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