Akshaya Kumar
Akshaya Kumar is the Director of Crisis Advocacy at Human Rights Watch. She oversees the organization’s advocacy response to emergencies and develops innovative strategies to respond to evolving crises. Kumar joined HRW as Deputy United Nations Director in 2015 and represented the organization at UN headquarters in New York for four years. She previously worked at the Enough Project where she helped launch The Sentry, an initiative that seeks to freeze war criminals out of the international financial system. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Akshaya holds a JD from Columbia University and an LLM in human rights, conflict and justice from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She speaks Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and English.
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November 1, 2020
Chinese Diplomats Try Using UN as Shield for Xinjiang Crimes
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January 9, 2020
Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics
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December 19, 2019
Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics
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August 16, 2019
UN Should Assign Blame to Those Attacking Syrian Hospitals